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 Antonio Banderas said elsewhere, not written here
My pathological incapacity to say no.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2019 source ↗

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Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
I thought that I had lost for a reason, and I thought that I was a little unseasoned and immature, and I had — the way I made decisions my first term, I got a lot done, but I was better at doing what I wanted to do than listening to other people about what they thought I should be doing or how they thought I ought to be doing it.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

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 ↗

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