The Proust Questionnaire

The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature. Here is the basic Proust Questionnaire.

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
   Waking up with the sunrise on a seaside location. Taking a walk with my dog and drinking some warm tea or coffee with my partner. We are in our campervan and have the freedom to go wherever we want.

2. What is your greatest fear?
   Death

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
   Narcissism

1. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
   Placing others on a scale of value based solely on what they earn or their job.

2. Which living person do you most admire?
   Elon Musk
   
   

3. What is your greatest extravagance?
   Buying tech gadgets/toys + rock climbing gear.
   

4. What is your current state of mind?
   Chaos + Calm (Yin + Yang)

5. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
   Hard work for a company that is not your own.

6. On what occasion do you lie?
   To save myself and others from pain. 

7. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
   My face is big and round.

8. Which living person do you most despise?
   Mitch McConnell

9. What is the quality you most like in a man?
   Being straight forward.

10. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
    Have an understanding how the world works.

11. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
    True say, Good Session Everybody

12. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
    Izzy 

13. When and where were you happiest?
    Bicycling the south of France from Nice to Barcelona.

14. Which talent would you most like to have?
    Guitar skills.

15. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
    Narcissism. 

16. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
    Managing my bipolar type 1 disorder.

17. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
    Come back as myself but with the memories and knowledge of my past life. 

18. Where would you most like to live?
    If money is of no concern: South of France (St. Tropez)
    If money is of concern: Rawaii Thailand, Cozumel Mexico, Roatan Honduras 

19. What is your most treasured possession?
    My cellphone

20. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
    2018 when I lied in bed for 1 year in a state of deep depression. 

21. What is your favorite occupation?
    Key Account Manager at foodora Australia. 

22. What is your most marked characteristic?
    I like to optimize systems. 

23. What do you most value in your friends?
    Honesty

24. Who are your favorite writers?
    Khaled Hosseini, Harumi Murakami, Dan Gilbert, Dan Ariely, Richard Dawkins

25. Who is your hero of fiction?
    Batman

26. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
    Qin Shi huang

27. Who are your heroes in real life?
    My grandfather

28. What are your favorite names?
    Summer, April, Luke, Jay

29. What is it that you most dislike?
    Urban sprawl and the dependance on cars in cities.

30. What is your greatest regret?
    Not remaining in Australia after hospitalization

31. How would you like to die?
    I don't want to die,  I am hopeful that by the time I am 80 we can upload our consciousness to the cloud and continue existing indefinitely. 

32. What is your motto?
    JOLO (joy of missing out)