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.
Self-flagellation.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2025 source ↗
My problem with clothes. I’ve got an issue, haven’t I? I’m not a fella in a band who can turn up in his T-shirt and jeans. I’ve got the whole drama of what I’m going to wear: the hair, the makeup. All that preening and pruning that adds to the stress. I have begun to hate that perfectionist in me.
I cut people off a lot when I talk. It’s a terrible habit.
Self-doubt and a reoccurring fear that people would prefer the other Alfred Molina.
I can’t deal with any level of stress.
Not being a scratch golfer.
Double-glazing sales when I was about 16 – on the phone, cold calling. Horrendous.
It would be a racist comment.
Being able to cram the quality of eight hours’ sleep into four.
By my friends and loved ones as someone who loved ferociously and always had their back.
I was 17 and about to go on a first date with my first boyfriend. I was so desperate for my mum not to meet him that I was trying to get to the door before she did. I ran down the stairs as she opened it, and slid down the last five steps on my arse.
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