描述一项让你感到自豪的成就

如何说满两分钟

是四个节拍，不是四个答案。卡片上的提示只是脚手架——一段自然流过这些提示的讲述，比四个互不相连的回答得分更高。

1. 01你取得了什么成就，直接说，并说明是什么时候。
2. 02付出了什么——简短地说，因为挣扎不是这里的主题。
3. 03实现它的那一刻，以及有谁在场。
4. 04为什么你为这件事自豪，而不是为你做过的某件更大的事。

这张卡适合用的词汇

词汇丰富度占你分数的四分之一，而7分的标准明确允许偶尔用错词——一味求稳、只用简单词汇，正是很多人卡在6分的原因。

这张卡的陷阱

一个8分回答，以及它为什么有效

读它是为了看清其中的技巧，而不是背下这些话。考官每个工作日都会听到背诵的答案，这会体现在你的流利度分数上——背诵者的停顿方式和真正在思考的人完全不同。下面的细节都是虚构的，你的回答应该讲你自己的故事。

The thing I'm proudest of is fairly unglamorous: I got my father to stop smoking, after about twenty years of the whole family failing to. What worked wasn't argument. We'd all tried that and it had entrenched him — the more it was raised the more it became a thing he was defending rather than a habit he had. What I did, more or less by accident, was stop mentioning it and instead ask him to come walking with me on Sunday mornings, which he agreed to because it wasn't about smoking. After a few months he was noticeably fitter and he brought it up himself, which was the first time in two decades it had come from his side. He stopped about four months later. He's been off them three years now. I'm proud of it partly for the obvious reason and partly because it taught me that people almost never change under pressure from the people who love them, which is counterintuitive and, I think, true.

拿到这个分数的关键

• 关于来自亲人的压力的洞见真正反直觉，也直接回答了“why you are proud of it”。
• 叙述有一个清晰的机制——停止争论、创造契机、让他自己提起——这让它有说服力，而不是靠运气。
• “A thing he was defending rather than a habit he had”用简洁的语言表达了一个精确的区分。

第三部分接下来会问什么

第三部分和你的长篇独白有松散的联系，但问题会变得抽象——问的是一般人，而不是你自己。这张卡之后通常会谈到：

• how societies recognise achievement
• whether people should be praised for effort or results
• how ideas of success vary between cultures

如何应对第三部分讨论

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