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.
Absentmindedness.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2017 source ↗
The inclination to pretend I read a friend’s book when maybe I didn’t completely finish.
My health anxiety. I am a bit of a hypochondriac. I hate that about myself and I’ve worked extensively in therapy on changing it.
My ability to invariably say exactly the wrong thing in any given situation.
My cold indifference towards discarded friends.
Failure to be on time.
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.
Talking too much.
When I finished writing a book.
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