Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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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 Keith McNally said elsewhere, not written here
Craving the kind of success I pretend to despise.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2026 source ↗

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Barack Obama 44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing.
Recorded Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, The White House (Obama administration archive), 19 May 2013 source ↗
Maya Jama British television and radio presenter
I can be properly stubborn sometimes – but that’s me being a classic Leo.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 June 2023 source ↗

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