Bob Kennedy – Proust Questionnaire

Bob Kennedy is co-owner of The Running Company.  You can follow him on Twitter @zoomkennedy.

1. What is your most marked characteristic? Deliberate and emotional
2. What is the quality you most like in a man? Salt of the earth, honest & real
3. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Same as a man plus not having to play games
4. What do you most value in your friends? Loyalty
5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? (less) self centered – trying to remember things about others
6. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Healthy family, laughter & being together (please note a correction, we very wrongly had wealthy family and that’s a huge error on our part)
7. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? An early family death or illness before their time
8. Who are your favorite writers? Bob Hamill & Harold Times in Bloomington – Any IU sports + John
9. What is your current state of mind? I’m in a good place. Nothing is missing in my life right now
10. What is your motto?Don’t sweat the small stuff. I don’t really say it but I do it.
11. What is your greatest fear? Illness/children
12. What is your greatest extravagance? I’m not that extravagant. Maybe sports. Golf, entertainment. If it’s worth the experience, it’s worth it. 
13. On what occasion do you lie? When I assume it’s not harmful and it gets me out of a situation
14. What do you dislike most about your appearance? Gained 50 lbs since I stopped running
15. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? ”At the end of the day” and “obviously” – which is condescending, so I am trying to correct myself