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.
I’m terribly impatient.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2025 source ↗
I am a massive people-pleaser and it brings me nothing but trouble.
I can’t cook. I use my smoke alarm as a timer.
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.
Speaking negatively to myself.
Floating on my back in the ocean.
People-pleasing.
Right now: Summer. Dusk. On my couch watching Australian Open tennis with my kids and dog. Doors wide open to a beautiful body of water. The first star of the night just appeared in the sky. Life is magical.
Losing my mind.
Anyone brave enough to truly be themselves.
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