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.
My inferiority complex.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗
Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.
My inability to say no.
The way I allow myself to talk to myself.
I have a child-like fear of being late. I’m a grown man, and I’m scared I’m going to the principal’s office.
To be dishonest. Sometimes people have to be dishonest in order not to hurt, but if someone is basically dishonest, that is a different matter.
Mandela. Also, artists and painters. I admire people who are creative.
To be abandoned.
First of all, to be in love. The second way of being very happy is to be able to get the best out of yourself, whatever it is.
In the mountains, climbing into beautiful places—anything that has to do with nature. I feel best in nature or near nature. And I was most happy, of course, when I was with my husband and we were in beautiful landscapes.
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