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 Sarah Hadland said elsewhere, not written here
Very impatient, bossy, always late.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗

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Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
I thought that I had lost for a reason, and I thought that I was a little unseasoned and immature, and I had — the way I made decisions my first term, I got a lot done, but I was better at doing what I wanted to do than listening to other people about what they thought I should be doing or how they thought I ought to be doing it.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

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Question Which moment embarrassed you most? Failure & regret
Years ago, I was trying to get with one of the big agencies and I cobbled together a VHS tape of me in adverts and sobbing in The Bill, and took it United Agents for the attention of Dallas Smith. A week later I went back and said, “Has she looked at the tape?” And they were, like, “Dallas is a he, no he hasn’t and he doesn’t want to,” and handed it back to me.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗

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