Showing posts with label Personality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personality. Show all posts

Saturday, June 29, 2013

My Proust Questionnaire 2013


What is your idea of happiness?
Living without regrets.
Where would you most like to live?
A place equally surrounded by well wishers and the incompatible ones.
What is your favourite virtue?
Living with half-knowledge.
What is your greatest fear?
Dying before accomplishing the purpose of my life.
What is your greatest regret?
None.
When and where were you happiest?
When I pursue something.
What is your greatest extravagance?
A good long walk.
What are your favourite qualities in a man?
Integrity, Industriousness.
What are your favourite qualities in a woman?
Integrity, Industriousness.
What do you most value in your friends?
Accepting me for what I am.
What is your biggest weakness?
Frankness.
What do you enjoy doing most?
Pursuit.
What is your most marked characteristic?
Nonlinear thinking.
What is your idea of misery?
Not knowing your abilities and limitations.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
The speed of my thoughts.
If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
Nothing.
If not yourself, who would you like to be?
None.
What is your favourite colour?
Green.
What is your favourite flower?
Jasmine.
What is your favourite bird?
Pigeon.
Who are your favourite writers?
Ayn Rand, Jeffrey Archer, Sujatha.
Who are your favourite poets?
Thiruvalluvar, Bharathi, Arivumathi, Robert Frost.
Who are your favourite artists?
Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Dhanush, Raghuvaran, Prakash Raj, SRK.
Who are your favourite musicians?
A.R.Rahman.
Who are your favourite heroes and heroines in fiction?
Andy Dufresne, Howard Roark, Piscine Molitor Patel.
Who are the heroes and heroines in your life?
My parents.
Who are your favourite heroes and heroines in history?
The hunter-gatherers.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My family.
What is your favourite food and drink?
Dosai, Horlicks.
What is your favourite journey?
A long walk through a calm street.
What are your favourite names?
Elango, Thamizh.
What do you most dislike?
Drama.
Which historical figures do you most dislike?
The farmers.
Which living person do you most despise?
Everyone who doesn't know what one is doing.
What event in history you most admire?
The rise against oppression/colonialism.
What social movement do you most admire?
Parenting.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
None.
How would you like to die?
Shot.
What is your present state of mind?
Enthusiasm.
What is your biggest pet peeve?
Spelling a name wrong.
Which fault in others do you most easily tolerate?
Ignorance.
Which fault in yourself do you most easily tolerate?
Under estimating/Over estimating others.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Having tolerated the mortals.
What would you like to be?
A father.
What is your motto?
Play along.
As answered on June 25, 2013.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

My Proust Questionnaire 2012

What is your idea of happiness?
Possessing the ability to sweat and wanting to. 

Where would you most like to live?
A place that would necessitate a lot of walking for everyday life. 

What is your favourite virtue?
Arrogance. 

What is your greatest fear?
Some day, the world might be perfect. 

What is your greatest regret?
The treatment I give to people I'm incompatible with. 

When and where were you happiest?
1983, Home. 

What is your greatest extravagance?
Nutritious food. 

What are your favourite qualities in a man?
Integrity, Industriousness. 

What are your favourite qualities in a woman?
Isn't that a repetitive question? 

What do you most value in your friends?
Trust. 

What is your biggest weakness?
Complacency. 

What do you enjoy doing most?
Unlearning the myths that the past educated me. 

What is your most marked characteristic?
Goodness. 

What is your idea of misery?
The belief that you cannot get out of what you perceive as your misery. 

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

If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
Their temper. 

If not yourself, who would you like to be?
The one who designed the Universe. 

What is your favourite colour?
Light Green. 

What is your favourite flower?
Jasmine. 

What is your favourite bird?
Sparrow. 

Who are your favourite writers?
Haven't settled with one. 

Who are your favourite poets?
Can't remember one. 

Who are your favourite artists?
Dhanush. 

Who are your favourite musicians?
Are these four questions really important? 

Who are your favourite heroes and heroines in fiction?
Make it five. 

Who are the heroes and heroines in your life?
Anand. 

Who are your favourite heroes and heroines in history?
Everyone who did the impossible. 

What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Being myself. 

What is your favourite food and drink?
Dosai and Water. 

What is your favourite journey?
The bus from Sankagiri to Komarapalayam and Erode to Bhavani. 

What are your favourite names?
Elango. 

What do you most dislike?
Ignorance. 

Which historical figures do you most dislike?
The hunter-gatherers who became farmers. 

Which living person do you most despise?
None. 

What event in history you most admire?
When Sport became widely accepted as the substitute for War. 

What social movement do you most admire?
Democracy. 

What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Articulation. 

How would you like to die?
Sudden, after my insurance term. 

What is your present state of mind?
Certainty. 

What is your biggest pet peeve?
Irony. 

Which fault in others do you most easily tolerate?
Fault finding. 

Which fault in yourself do you most easily tolerate?
Patience. 

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Waking up every morning, knowing I'm about to change the world around me. 

What would you like to be?
I am, already. 

What is your motto?
Make it happen.

As answered on
November 24, 2012

Friday, October 28, 2011

My Proust Questionnaire 2011

What is your idea of happiness?
Happiness is a state of mind, not an emotion. Happiness is a healthy mixture of delight, hope, faith, sorrow, ambiguity and regret.
Where would you most like to live?
A place full of uncertainties.
What is your favourite virtue?
Longevity.
What is your greatest fear?
The fear of dying before having a girl child.
What is your greatest regret?
Having loved unworthy people.
When and where were you happiest?
Now, here.
What is your greatest extravagance?
A regular metabolism.
What are your favourite qualities in a man?
Courage, Frankness, Honesty.
What are your favourite qualities in a woman?
Courage, Frankness, Honesty.
What do you most value in your friends?
Commitment.
What is your biggest weakness?
Frankness.
What do you enjoy doing most?
Read, Work, Play.
What is your most marked characteristic?
Eccentricity.
What is your idea of misery?
Like happiness, misery is a state of mind. Misery is an unhealthy mixture of delight, hope, faith, sorrow, ambiguity and regret.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Nothing.
If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
Nothing.
If not yourself, who would you like to be?
Anand, born 20 years earlier.
What is your favourite colour?
Green.
What is your favourite flower?
Jasmine.
What is your favourite bird?
Pigeon.
Who are your favourite writers?
Ayn Rand, Benjamin Graham.
Who are your favourite poets?
Bharathiyar, Robert Frost, John Milton.
Who are your favourite artists?
Morgan Freeman, Prakash Raj, Raghuvaran, Kamal Haasan.
Who are your favourite musicians?
Rahman, Beethoven.
Who are your favourite heroes and heroines in fiction?
Howard Roark, Dominique Francon, Andy Dufresne.
Who are the heroes and heroines in your life?
Mom, Dad, Nirmala, few other women.
Who are your favourite heroes and heroines in history?
None.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
None.
What is your favourite food and drink?
Dosai and Water.
What is your favourite journey?
A walk with someone through an unknown street.
What are your favourite names?
Aanaa, Aey, Divya.
What do you most dislike?
Ignorance.
Which historical figures do you most dislike?
Mr. M. Karunanidhi.
Which living person do you most despise?
If I despise someone, I don't consider one living.
What event in history you most admire?
The creation of Earth.
What social movement do you most admire?
Parenting.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Grit.
How would you like to die?
Assassinated.
What is your present state of mind?
Serenity.
What is your biggest pet peeve?
People wanting me to change.
Which fault in others do you most easily tolerate?
Ignorance.
Which fault in yourself do you most easily tolerate?
I don't have faults.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Having lived for 28 years among mortals.
What would you like to be?
A father.
What is your motto?
It's always good to look back. But never stare.

As answered on October 4, 2011.