The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m monstrously judgmental. It’s like talking to the pope.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 March 2026 source ↗
Impatience. My dad said I was born in a hurry.
I’m very impatient – next question.
I have a habit of sabotaging the moment in pursuit of perfection.
I’d rather name one for someone else. I’m egomaniacal.
I am so obdurate I do not change my mind.
I understand that you lose the register of hearing that enables you to hear crickets, and when I can’t hear crickets in the summer I’ll be really sad.
Not being loved.
Impatient, ambitious and happy.
I have never been able to become an atheist and, even though I know it is completely irrational and cannot be backed up, I think when I die I’m going to glory.
My A-level results in 1998. I flunked my history A-level and lost my place at Cambridge. It broke my heart for years; now I’m really glad, because I pull out the whole “I went to a polytechnic” thing. But at the time for a teenager who was rather pleased with herself, it was absolutely devastating.
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