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.
Oversharing my personal life, but here we are, oversharing!
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
Procrastination ... getting overwhelmed ... getting stuck.
Appearing angry when I’m not angry.
Being judgmental.
I’m a perfectionist; it’s boring.
Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.
An air traffic controller.
I think that we dissolve into the soil and new things sprout from that.
Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
If I bothered to read instructions.
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.
Vera Wang, Robert Evans, Ed Koch, Mel Brooks, Bobbi Brown, Trevor Noah
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