Not following through on things.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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When were you happiest?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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.
Impatience and anger.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2022 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 242 →Being judgmental.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2014 source ↗
Conflict aversion.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗
A willingness to go with my gut feeling, rather than wait a day and contemplate other options.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2013 source ↗
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View profile →Our last holiday together in Pangkor Laut.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2022 source ↗
Being with my family and kids, on an island, eating and drinking.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 July 2022 source ↗
Lying, unreliability.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2022 source ↗
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