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Catastrophising.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2022 source ↗
The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
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View all 239 →Very impatient, bossy, always late.
Robert Glenister
English actor
Lack of confidence.
When I’m feeling lazy and I sleep in too much.
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing.
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Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, The White House (Obama administration archive), 19 May 2013
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More from Jacqueline Wilson
View profile →When I was in my 30s and taped myself singing. I always thought I had quite a sweet voice – my voice is terrible, I can’t hold a note.
A few years ago in Vermont, when I eloped with Trish to have a civil partnership ceremony.
A little girl called Pat. We were nine-year-olds together and all the class made her life a misery. I knew she wanted to be my friend and I would only be friends with her if nobody else was around. I feel dreadful about that.
Realising that if they were drowning, you’d try to save them.
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