Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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.

Recorded Diahann Carroll said elsewhere, not written here
Being judgmental.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2014 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 242 →
Helena Bonham Carter Actor
My distractibility, diminishing memory, and capacity for sustained concentration. My English master once said I had the brain of a butterfly. I feel that 40 years later, I’ve evolved into Dory from Finding Nemo.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

More from Diahann Carroll

View profile →

More on identity & self

Also answered this · A–Z

Adam Kay, Adam Lambert, Adele Parks, Adrian Dunbar, Al Franken, Alex Hassell

Search the directory for somebody in particular.

Explore further

Report this answer