Stress is bad for your health.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To trust in the process.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗
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Be true to yourself.
To keep trying to listen to yourself.
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View profile →I once had to dress up as [fast food chain] Supermac’s bunny during a St Patrick’s Day parade and shake people’s hands. Kids kept trying to take off my gloves and punching my bunny head. It was awful.
Missing a cue on stage. I had to come on and move a piece of furniture with another actor and I completely forgot. I looked at the monitor and said, “Why is he standing on his own?” And somebody said, “Aren’t you meant to help him?”
Not actualising my full potential.
Less phone use.
Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
For being joyful.
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