Mike Wallace: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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.

Recorded Mike Wallace said elsewhere, not written here

Self-absorption.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

Appearing angry when I’m not angry.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗

John Lewis U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966

My tendency to skip meals.

Recorded Vanity Fair, Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 December 2019 source ↗

Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman

The fact that sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2012 source ↗

Jacqueline Wilson English novelist

Catastrophising.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2022 source ↗

Self-absorption.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗

I don’t have any left. I’ve already lost a son. I guess, maybe, that my wife would leave me, but she wouldn’t dare.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗

Nineteen thirty-nine. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Station WOOD, 20 bucks a week.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗

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