Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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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.

Recorded Chaka Khan said elsewhere, not written here
That I have no patience.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2024 source ↗

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Tim Peake British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
Shyness. It really held me back when I was younger, and I wish it hadn’t. I do a better job of not being so shy these days.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 October 2022 source ↗
Mary Tyler Moore
Well, first of all I’d like to change the word “deplore” to “dislike.” I guess that I’m almost a hermit; I don’t enjoy going out that much, and so I tend to take my happiness from the joys of my home and my husband.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2012 source ↗

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When Rufus first came out, it was all white guys and myself, but then the band changed and Tony Maiden, Bobby Watson and Andre Fischer came in. This guy booked us for a gig in Illinois, based on our original album cover, and when we got there he said that there were too many black people in the band. He actually put some white guys on the stage with us.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2024 source ↗

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