Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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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.

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That I give way too quickly.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2013 source ↗

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Self-destruction.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗

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To get the most out of the world around you you’ve got to really look hard. Most people out walking in the woods don’t really look. They just glance around. They scan. Before I start a painting I spend a lot of time looking and thinking, I go out in the car and pull a chair out of the boot and sit in the woods. I sit there and smoke and just look.
Recorded The National, Interview in the courtyard of the Royal Academy, London, The National, 1 January 2012 source ↗

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