Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.
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What problem are you still trying to solve?
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What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you have ever made — of money, time, or energy?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What is your worst intellectual habit?
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What is an unusual habit or an absurd thing that you love?
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
All good dramatists are scared of the audience.
Angela Wintle, This much I know, The Guardian, 17 February 2018 source ↗
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Scott Mills
English radio DJ and television presenter
Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.
Regrets. That’s no way to live.
Something happening to one of my children.
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I threw my lot in with the theatre and in terms of the pleasure it's given me, I've never regretted it, not even for a second.
I took Nicole out to dinner for the first time on 19 October, 1991. After that, everything changed.
Not reading medicine.
if you have never suffered from self-loathing, lucky you.
I get to airports ridiculously early. It’s an uncontrollable urge.
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