The question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?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.
Impatience and being bossy.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
I dislike my relationship with food. I wish I didn’t love food so much.
Being judgmental.
Laziness and procrastination.
Taking myself seriously, even in a Vanity Fair quiz.
I will be dead, why would I care?
To my first husband for being unfaithful, bossy, and eventually leaving him.
Give, give, give. The more you give, the happier you are.
“You’re a narcissist!” From someone who was a narcissist himself.
I would not leave my teenage children to follow an unworthy love. It lasted a month and scarred the family for ever.
A Tesla for my former husband. He didn’t deserve it.
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