The question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?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.
Worrying at things.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2026 source ↗
I’m certainly not going to tell it here.
Getting too involved in too many things. It eats your brain.
Impatience; the inability to savor the moment.
Picking my nose.
On a train journey to Arcadia many years ago while making a TV documentary.
A Dalí painting.
Looking after the flowerbed on my windowsill.
We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
Evolve or perish.
Not being there for my daughter.
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