The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
Trying to exercise authority over one.
The inability to stop talking about themselves when they’re not being interviewed.
Aggression. Anger. Rudeness. Intolerance. Lack of understanding. Pretty much your average day on X.
I don’t think you could print it, it’s so bad.
If I bothered to read instructions.
That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.
That I didn’t appreciate the smaller joys in life.
Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.
My closest friend at uni – I sometimes retreat from life in quite an extreme way, without word. Back then, I didn’t really understand what I was doing.
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