Andrew Weil: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

The question

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.

Andrew Weil

Physician; founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I had a family physician when I was growing up who was a mentor and steered me towards studying medicine.

Olivendo, Olivendo, 17 October 2022 source ↗

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Kathy Lette Australian-British author

I can’t cook. I use my smoke alarm as a timer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2024 source ↗

Michael Cunningham

I’m chronically late. It’s magical thinking: I actually believe I can take a shower and get dressed in three minutes, that the train will be pulling into the station the moment I arrive….

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2023 source ↗

Keren Woodward

I am a bit of a procrastinator.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗

Bob Schieffer

Absentmindedness.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2017 source ↗

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Yes. Well, one of them I’m holding in my hand right now. And my daughter turned me onto these. She’s now 28. Computer glasses, which I got on Amazon. I don’t know. They were less than $20. But these are yellow-tinted glasses that enlarge things slightly. That has totally changed my comfort in sitting in front of a screen.

Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 10 December 2018 source ↗

Question What did you want to be when you were growing up? Identity & self

I had a family physician when I was growing up who was a mentor and steered me towards studying medicine.