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What is your worst quality?

Adrienne (USA)
What are my worst qualities? Well, let’s just stick with one for now cause the list could be very long if we did all of my worst qualities. I think one of my worst qualities is that often times I can be very stubborn, especially when I think I’m right, even when I’m not, so stubbornness definitely is one of my worst qualities.

Questions and answers:

•1.       What is one of Adrienne’s worst qualities?: Stubbornness. Adrienne can be very stubborn(têtu(e), obstiné(e))

•2.      Adrienne says that the list of her worst qualities could be very long: True

Peter  (Sweden)
My worst quality would be that I don’t have any patience at all. It doesn’t matter what I’m doing. If I’m studying I want to quit it right away even before I start studying and also since I’m a musician I make music and when I make music I tend to create some kind of song and then right away I go to the next one before I even finish the last one.

•3.      What is Peter’s worst quality? :Impatience. Peter doesn’t have any patience at all.

•4.      What is Peter’s activity? : He makes music

Lisa (Canada)
What are my worst qualities? That’s a pretty easy answer. My worst, absolute worst quality is procrastinating. I am a terrible procrastinator. I will wait to pack for a big vacation on the day of the trip, on the day that I leave. I remember is school, I used to wait to finish twenty page papers. I used to start twenty page papers two days before they were due. I am a terrible procrastinator.

•1.       What example does Lisa give to illustrate her worst quality? : Packing for a trip. Lisa would wait to pack for a big vaction on the day of the tip.

Phil (England)
OK, what’s my worst quality? My worst quality has to be my patience. Sometimes when I walking down the street, I get very frustrated by people walking slowly in front of me, or people riding their bicycles and sometimes they nearly hit me on street and I get very angry for no real reason so I think sometimes I’m very impatient.

•1.       What is Phil’s worst quality? :Impatience. He is sometimes very impatient.

•2.      For waht reason deos he get angry? :For no real reason. He gets angry for no real reason.

Simone (Sweden)
What’s my worst quality? I think it’s I’m very messy. When I… like in my room for example, if I’m using something, I’m just leaving it there as it builds mountains of stuff everywhere. That’s my worst quality. I never finish anything.

•3.      What is Simone’s worst quality? Messiness. She is very messy, never finishes anything.

Chip (The United States)
What are my worst qualities? Well, sometimes I say I want to do a big project but then I realize, “Oh, wait a minute! You know what, I probably shouldn’t have said anything because now everyone expects me to do it, and I don’t have any choice.” Probably I should just do it and then talk about it later, you know I have a bad habit of saying, “Gee, I think it will be a good idea if I did ABC” but then I think, “Oh, man, you know what, I don’t think I’ll be able to do that, at least now when I say I will, so it’s a bad habit. I should just keep quiet and do it and then have everyone else talk about it.

1. What is Chip’s worst quality? : Making promises.
2. What does he wish he would do more? : He wishes he would not make promises

Adapted from elllo, an online lab.