A.J. Jacobs
Journalist and author of The Year of Living Biblically
Being willing to listen to my ideas and tell me when they are good and when they are dumb.
What do you value most in your friends?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What are you most proud of?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Loyalty. Most of my friends have been around me for decades.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2014 source ↗
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Forbearance with my chronic tardiness.
Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2009–present
Find the friends who do that. Find the friends who never tell you that you can’t do it, but who point you in the right direction, hold you when you fail, and push you when you need the push. Those are hard friends to value sometimes, but they are the best of friends.
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At that time nobody had Brazil on the map and suddenly Brazil became a huge football nation. I was very proud because I made Brazil well known all over the world.
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