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.
Very impatient, bossy, always late.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗
Impatience. Though sometimes it helps!
I talk too much.
I’m incredibly patient with a lot of stuff, but incredibly impatient with other things. I deplore the impatient side.
Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing.
If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.
Laziness, lack of empathy, lack of humour.
Speedy, bossy, loving.
“You’ll never, ever work.” When you are young and full of hopes and dreams it’s devastating. I am just grateful that I thought: “Well, I’m going to try.”
A missionary in Africa – I think that was Sunday school-based.
A glow of wellbeing.
James Norton, Tina Fey, Tom Fletcher, Seann Walsh, Zadie Smith, Harrison Ford
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