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.
Always saying yes to people. For example, I’m doing this.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2025 source ↗
Doomscrolling on my phone.
My phobias. I’m down to two, so I take that as a positive sign.
Self-criticism.
I have very poor time management. I am often running late, I procrastinate a lot.
Nothing. If I’m worried or upset or tormented, I go to sleep quickly and easily, to find welcome oblivion.
First loved, then laid, then paid.
The exact median middle-aged black woman in the US. If hard work guaranteed success, she’d be the most successful person on the planet. But she isn’t, yet she keeps on going.
More than I can, sadly. I led the softest of lives in the softest of times, and my daughter will face sterner challenges.
In 1993, making love on the beach of a deserted island in the Bahamas.
A painting by Renoir, paid for by demanding a huge fee for a screenwriting deal with a producer I didn’t want to work for. The movie was never made.
Erin Doherty, Leona Lewis, Allison Janney, Carrie Fisher, Kelly Hoppen, Craig Charles
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