Procrastination.
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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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.
The way I allow myself to talk to myself.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2017 source ↗
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Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
Biting my nails.
Jerry Lewis
American comedian, actor and filmmaker
No sense of humor.
Judy Blume
Novelist
My phobias. I’m down to two, so I take that as a positive sign.
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Having a bunch of answers and getting to fill in the questions. With loved ones. While in Maui.
Either living up to or not living up to my potential.
Entitlement or a lack of manners. Though I find they often flock together.
Wherever I’m sitting, once I finish this questionnaire.
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