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.
I’m quite stubborn.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 November 2025 source ↗
When I “poll the audience” and my need to please others.
My ability to invariably say exactly the wrong thing in any given situation.
I can be an overthinker and a vicious self-critic.
Comparing myself to other people.
Complicated, chaotic, messy.
Very complicated.
People who aren’t polite.
On stage with my band.
I’m afraid of the dark.
I was in Oliver! when I was 10 and I peed myself on stage in front of however many people the Palladium holds. It was the stuff of nightmares.
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