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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
My tendency to be avoidant.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
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Julian Lennon
English musician, photographer, and philanthropist
Fear, anxiety and panic attacks.
Sitting on the fence – I will do anything to avoid confrontation.
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View profile →I’ve never really had a horrible job – I liked working at restaurants and being a nanny when I wasn’t acting.
To myself for diminishing my gut feelings until quite recently.
An inability to be authentic.
Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.
In my 20s I was in a show called The Unauthorised Autobiography of Samantha Brown. The actor who played my dad messed up his lines and it made me laugh so hard that I ended up peeing my pants.
When I realised that I could get myself through anything that came my way.
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