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Which trait in yourself do you like least?

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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.

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An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
Bruno Tonioli Italian choreographer
I don’t think anyone should deplore anything about themselves. You can always improve things, but by deploring you’re putting yourself on a losing streak.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗

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Question Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? Failure & regret
To my cousin P, who was one of my best mates growing up. We lost him when we were in our 20s and, before he passed away, I was so busy with this stupid thing called life and a brand new kid. He called me and said: “Bro, I’m not feeling right.” And I said: “Bro, you’ve never been feeling right.” And it always sits on my head that if me or somebody else had been paying more attention maybe things would have worked out different. He had extremely rare bowel cancer and died five weeks later at 27.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 December 2025 source ↗

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