This questionnaire supposedly has its origins in a parlour game popularised (though not devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist. He believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature.
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Here is the slightly expanded Proust questionnaire:
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
2. What is your greatest fear?
3. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
4. Which living person do you most admire?
5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
7. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
8. What is your favourite journey?
9. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
10. On what occasion do you lie?
11. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
12. Which living person do you most despise?
13. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
14. What is your greatest regret?
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
16. When and where were you happiest?
17. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
18. Which talent would you most like to have?
19. What is your current state of mind?
20. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
21. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
22. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
23. If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
24. What is your most treasured possession?
25. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
26. Where would you like to live?
27. What is your favourite occupation?
28. What is your most marked characteristic?
29. What is the quality you most like in a man?
30. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
31. What do you most value in your friends?
32. Who are your favourite writers?
33. Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
34. Who are your heroes in real life?
35. What are your favourite names?
36. What is it that you most dislike?
37. How would you like to die?
38. What is your motto?
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/10/david-bowie-proust-questionnaire-vanity-fair/
Do you want to see what David Bowie answered Vanity Fair in 1998 when they gave him these questions? Clicky-click.
Here is the slightly expanded Proust questionnaire:
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
2. What is your greatest fear?
3. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
4. Which living person do you most admire?
5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
7. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
8. What is your favourite journey?
9. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
10. On what occasion do you lie?
11. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
12. Which living person do you most despise?
13. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
14. What is your greatest regret?
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
16. When and where were you happiest?
17. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
18. Which talent would you most like to have?
19. What is your current state of mind?
20. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
21. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
22. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
23. If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
24. What is your most treasured possession?
25. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
26. Where would you like to live?
27. What is your favourite occupation?
28. What is your most marked characteristic?
29. What is the quality you most like in a man?
30. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
31. What do you most value in your friends?
32. Who are your favourite writers?
33. Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
34. Who are your heroes in real life?
35. What are your favourite names?
36. What is it that you most dislike?
37. How would you like to die?
38. What is your motto?
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/10/david-bowie-proust-questionnaire-vanity-fair/
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