Phoebe Dynevor: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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.

Recorded Phoebe Dynevor said elsewhere, not written here

I wish I could be more patient. I always want things to get done or happen now.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2024 source ↗

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Frank Bowling

The boozing. I started on rum as a child.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗

Kerry Godliman

Comparing myself to other people.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001

I thought that I had lost for a reason, and I thought that I was a little unseasoned and immature, and I had — the way I made decisions my first term, I got a lot done, but I was better at doing what I wanted to do than listening to other people about what they thought I should be doing or how they thought I ought to be doing it.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

Arthur Ashkin Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the invention of optical tweezers

I can be cranky,

Recorded Hilary Brueck, Business Insider interview at Ashkin's home, 26 January 2019 source ↗

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Silly, loving and, as an Aries, passionate.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2024 source ↗

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The last time I really sobbed was watching Daniel Radcliffe’s documentary about his stuntman on the Harry Potter movies [David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived].

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2024 source ↗