Fareed Zakaria: What is your worst intellectual habit?

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Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017

Vox's fixed 9 Questions format asks this verbatim across respondents.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Fareed Zakaria said elsewhere, not written here

Wasting time reading blogs, magazines, newspapers. They have their place but they can become an addiction. And the real ways to gain understanding about issues are reading books and traveling.

Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 20 May 2017 source ↗

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Alain de Botton Writer and philosopher; founder of The School of Life

I’m prone to overexplaining things –- when my own understanding of them is shaky. The better I know something, the shorter my prose.

Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 29 April 2017 source ↗

Henry Rollins Musician, writer and broadcaster

Rushing to judgment. Looking for the bad in someone else before anything else.

Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, "9 questions" series, 8 April 2017 source ↗

Adam Gopnik Staff writer at The New Yorker; essayist

My very wise and politically savvy 17-year-old daughter says I get too emotional about political issues. I think she’s right. She knows that if she sees me race across a room, I have just read something about Trump. Turning ideas into feelings is the thing an essayist is supposed to do, but political punditry should probably be more detached.

Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 16 September 2017 source ↗

Lisa Randall Professor of theoretical physics at Harvard University