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.
Absentmindedness.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2017 source ↗
Whenever I walk past an ice-cream shop, I just can’t not buy an ice-cream.
My ability to stress myself out.
Craving the kind of success I pretend to despise.
Procrastination.
When I finished writing a book.
Getting hired. With the possible exception of my daughters’ births and my wedding day, the happiest moments of my life were when someone offered me a job.
Failure to be on time.
Talking too much.
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