If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

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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.

Recorded Gloria Steinem said elsewhere, not written here
I would love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗

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Nothin’. All my experiences, talents, wins, and L’s make me who I am today. I am constantly evolving, learning, and working toward not just being great, but also staying true to who I’ve always been—just a kid with a big dream from the LBC.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 January 2022 source ↗
Indecisiveness. It can be really annoying, especially when I am out to dinner and can’t decide between the chicken or the fish.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 November 2022 source ↗
Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
So for years I kept calling myself an entrepreneur until one day I realized like, wait a second, this is expired! Like somebody who is an athlete in high school can’t keep calling himself an athlete forever.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 23 April 2023 source ↗

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Question If you could edit your past, what would you change? Failure & regret
Since hostile people still call me a former Playboy Bunny, even at 82, I probably shouldn’t have done that in my youth, even to write an exposé. And since a couple of times they’ve also referred to me as a former CIA agent, because I went to two Soviet-era communist youth festivals, I probably shouldn’t have done that, either. Yet if I hadn’t done both, I might have judged other people by such empty symbols, too.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗

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