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.

Recorded Harrison Ford said elsewhere, not written here
Procrastination.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2010 source ↗

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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 ↗
Allison Janney
Oh, I have a long list. You should ask me what I like about myself—that list is much shorter.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2025 source ↗
Lemn Sissay
Believing in, even admiring, people who refuse to believe in me, and not believing people who do.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗

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