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 ↗
I have a habit of sabotaging the moment in pursuit of perfection.
I’m rabidly indiscreet. If you tell me an embarrassing story, it will probably end up in one of my scripts or standup routines.
My fear of confrontation.
Being a bit mean now and again, too impetuous, snappy, bit of a temper.
I don’t think you could print it, it’s so bad.
An air traffic controller.
Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.
Working on myself. I’m a work in progress to the end.
That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.
Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
Vera Wang, Robert Evans, Ed Koch, Mel Brooks, Bobbi Brown, Trevor Noah
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