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.
Lack of confidence in speaking to the opposite sex.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗
When I ruin someone else’s story because I think mine is better, so butt in before they’ve finished theirs.
The desire to please. It’s a losing battle.
Very impatient, bossy, always late.
My ability to make everything about me.
Not being honest.
Hurtful, hard, like concrete but also the soft, silky, smooth, cool pillow that you lay your head on. It’s like birds singing in the morning with the aurora going over your head at night. That’s love for me.
Stress, love, people not understanding me, me not understanding people.
There’s a tweet somewhere saying, “If you like Africa so much, why don’t you go back there.” It was because I dedicated one of my dances to my three mothers – Mother Africa, Mother Nature and my mother.
Being about nine metres away from a polar bear. In northern Canada, a young polar bear was very intrigued by our food. I was flying the drone at the time and the polar bear looked up and started paying attention, so then we flew the drone further away and he followed it while we got into our vehicles.
Heights, and not getting along with people.
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