Being an incurable workaholic.
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What is your greatest fear?
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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.
Sometimes I follow my instincts more than my reason.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2013 source ↗
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View all 243 →Feeling and being unfocused.
Catastrophising.
Craig Charles
English actor
Cowardice. There are so many issues that I would like to express opinions about but I’m too scared to stick my head above the parapet because of the social media pile-on.
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View profile →I would like to be less impulsive.
I honestly don’t have a particular fear. We must live life without limits, and fear can become a limit.
I’m defined as a very strong woman. I don’t identify myself with a specific figure, but I do greatly admire people who manage to persevere with humility through great difficulties.
I don’t like false or opportunistic people.
Happiness is a journey that depends solely on ourselves. We should be grateful to life because so much that it has in store for us will be marvelous and we have the good fortune to live it.
The ability to be themselves rather than hiding behind a mask.
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