My tendency to be avoidant.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is your greatest fear?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What do you value most in your friends?
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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.
My competitive side, the one that keeps score.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 242 →Sitting on the fence – I will do anything to avoid confrontation.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗
I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗
Rose Ayling-Ellis
British actress
Avoidance coping.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2024 source ↗
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View profile →Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot for advocating that girls be educated.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗
Pettiness, arrogance, boorishness.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗
That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗
At sunset or under the stars on the dock of our lake house just being with my family and pals.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 June 2013 source ↗
That they can pick up where we left off.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 June 2013 source ↗
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