My default will always be to go for the worst-case scenario and that is something that I am unlearning.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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.
Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗
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David Hockney
Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and photographer
That I give way too quickly.
Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Narcissism, solipsism.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
British screenwriter, novelist and actor
My inability to say no.
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View profile →Missing a cue on stage. I had to come on and move a piece of furniture with another actor and I completely forgot. I looked at the monitor and said, “Why is he standing on his own?” And somebody said, “Aren’t you meant to help him?”
For being joyful.
To trust in the process.
Less phone use.
I once had to dress up as [fast food chain] Supermac’s bunny during a St Patrick’s Day parade and shake people’s hands. Kids kept trying to take off my gloves and punching my bunny head. It was awful.
Not actualising my full potential.
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