The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m a bit of a hoarder.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 September 2025 source ↗
I find it difficult to sit still.
Still biting my nails.
I would deplore feeling deplorable about myself.
Being too thin-skinned.
Less time on my phone.
In a different sense, I’ve helped to try to resuscitate a dead man.
Honest, empathetic, daring.
The children. As a mother you are constantly worrying whether you’ve done the right thing.
It was reading out loud, but no longer. (I am dyslexic.) I was encouraged by my husband to do a speech for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which helped me gain my confidence, and the fear disappeared.
Clearing up someone’s sick – it was on police duty.
Jane Asher, Milton Jones, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Norman Lear, Julian Clary, Nancy Pelosi
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