David Chang: What is your greatest fear?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded David Chang said elsewhere, not written here

Figuratively doing nothing.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

Scott Mills English radio DJ and television presenter

Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 October 2022 source ↗

Johnny Flynn British actor and musician

I’ve got vertigo, so anything to do with heights.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 April 2022 source ↗

Losing family, friends, and loved ones.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2025 source ↗

Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman

Flipping my wig.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2012 source ↗

My intense self-loathing.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Unwillingness to change.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Good TV, good delivery, perfect AC. Literally doing nothing.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 September 2019 source ↗

My wife, Grace.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

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