I talk too much.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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.
I’ve got no patience.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗
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View all 242 →Being an incurable workaholic.
Too controlling about silly things like timings or not having toxic cleaning products in the house.
I’m so tempted to answer serial killer.
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View profile →Frank Adamson, my first coach, for not spending more time with him in his later years. I feel bad about that.
That they think they know it all.
Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective.
It makes you feel like you want to live.What is the worst job you’ve ever done? Doing the audiobook of the first book. It was hard. I couldn’t do that again.
I would go back to when I was 14 and keep to my own style of playing snooker. I was perfect, but I didn’t think I was, so I started playing like everybody else and created bad habits. With a little more time, I could have been the ultimate player. I look at my career and I probably got 75% out of it instead of 100%.
As someone that loved what they did, embraced it wholeheartedly and never quit.
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