Thinking that I am less-than. That thinking is cunning, baffling, and insidious, and I must guard against it every hour of every day.
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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.
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Procrastination.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2011 source ↗
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Fran Healy
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I’m incredibly patient with a lot of stuff, but incredibly impatient with other things. I deplore the impatient side.
Catastrophising.
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That I give way too quickly.
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People who are proud of their ignorance.
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