The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?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.
Oversharing my personal life, but here we are, oversharing!
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
That I give way too quickly.
My complete lack of organisation that affects all part of my life – my living space, my being in touch with people, everything. I am a walking shitshow.
Catastrophising.
I repeat stories (like my mum used to).
Unbending opinions.
Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
A sense of what really matters.
Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.
That I didn’t appreciate the smaller joys in life.
An air traffic controller.
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