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.

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David Hare Playwright and screenwriter
I don’t think I am either as ruthlessly selfish as I was then, but I think that unhappiness made me terribly terribly selfish.
Recorded Jasper Rees, Q&A, The Arts Desk, 10 October 2009 source ↗
Fran Healy Scottish musician
I’m incredibly patient with a lot of stuff, but incredibly impatient with other things. I deplore the impatient side.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 July 2024 source ↗
David Lynch Film director, screenwriter and painter
I noticed I did have an anger. Many people have anger and I was one of them.
Recorded The Talks, The Talks, 15 October 2014 source ↗

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