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.
Having no patience.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Procrastination.
Lack of confidence in speaking to the opposite sex.
Trying to do a million things at once.
My tendency to be avoidant.
Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.
My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
Trying too hard to be funny.
Well, Frank Sinatra’s gone, so the rest have to stand in line.
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