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.

Recorded Isabel Allende said elsewhere, not written here
Impatience and being bossy.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗

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Ed Koch
A willingness to go with my gut feeling, rather than wait a day and contemplate other options.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2013 source ↗
Barack Obama 44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing.
Recorded Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, The White House (Obama administration archive), 19 May 2013 source ↗

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