Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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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 Dolly Parton said elsewhere, not written here
The fact that sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2012 source ↗

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Believing in, even admiring, people who refuse to believe in me, and not believing people who do.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗

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