Craving the kind of success I pretend to despise.
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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.
The way I allow myself to talk to myself.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2017 source ↗
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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
I was too emotional about something not going too well.
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Times of India editors, TOI Guest Editor interview, The Times of India, 17 November 2017
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Always saying yes to people. For example, I’m doing this.
Procrastination ... getting overwhelmed ... getting stuck.
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View profile →Having a bunch of answers and getting to fill in the questions. With loved ones. While in Maui.
A sense of humor and/or the ability to use a toilet correctly.
Either living up to or not living up to my potential.
Entitlement or a lack of manners. Though I find they often flock together.
Wherever I’m sitting, once I finish this questionnaire.
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