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What is your greatest fear?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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Andrew Weil Physician; founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona
Society’s inability to encourage people to make better lifestyle choices that really prevent disease and promote health.
Recorded Katy Koontz, Unity Magazine, 1 August 2022 source ↗
Small things make me anxious – like social things – but I have no big fears because I have faith in my heart.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2026 source ↗
Heights. I love being high, but I don’t like being up high.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2022 source ↗

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Question Which teacher, parent, coach or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them? Relationships
My father was my major teacher, disciplinarian. But my mother lent a lot to me and to my life, in that, when things weren’t going right, or when my father was too tough, I had the soft feel of my mother to help me, and she did. And she a lot of the times gave me confidence that I needed to overcome some of the things that happened that weren’t so pleasant.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗
Question What are you most proud of? Identity & self
That’s difficult for someone to talk about themselves. If I’ve helped improve the game of golf and if I’ve helped improve people’s outlook on life and the game of golf, that would be something that I would be very happy for. I would really like to think that maybe I have left something that other people will look at and say, when people come in back of them, that they have given them the same opportunity that we had. And that means give our kids the opportunities that we’ve had through these years. And if I can do that and leave something along those lines to people, I’ll be very happy for that.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Orlando, Florida, 2 December 1997 source ↗

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