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.
Conflict aversion.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
When I ruin someone else’s story because I think mine is better, so butt in before they’ve finished theirs.
Catastrophising.
I am crucified by my modesty: it’s terrible.
Probably the curtain call of my final performance when I played King Lear.
Creating something and feeling proud of it.
Climate change, duh.
Three versions of the same trait: deceit, hypocrisy, and manipulativeness.
Jason Derulo, Douglas Booth, Shonda Rhimes, Sharon Corr, Melissa Etheridge, Ally McCoist
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