Convince myself that walking two miles a day isn’t boring.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 9 November 2012 source ↗
The question
If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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View all 53 →I would be a better, faster, and more faithful writer of letters and e-mails, and returner of phone calls.
I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
I’d like to increase my brain’s computing speed.
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Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
I'm trying to be more organized.
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