描述你得到过的一条有用的建议

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你得到这条建议时所处的情境。
2. 02谁给的建议，他们实际说了什么——尽量按你记得的原话说。
3. 03你当时怎么看它，通常不太当回事。
4. 04它后来是怎么证明有用的，举一个例子。

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 most useful advice I've been given came from a former manager and it was extremely short: never send the email you write when you're angry, but do write it. I'd been about to reply to something that had annoyed me and she suggested writing the reply and then not sending it for an hour. What's clever about it is that it doesn't ask you to be calm, which is not a thing you can do on demand. It gives the anger somewhere to go and then puts a gap in. I've used it a great deal since, and the hit rate is striking — I'd say I send perhaps one in five of those drafts, usually heavily rewritten, and I've never once regretted the four I didn't. The wider version, which took me longer to see, is that most bad decisions I've made were made quickly while feeling something strongly. The advice isn't really about email. It's about putting a delay between a feeling and an action.

拿到这个分数的关键

• 解释这条建议为什么有效——它不要求你保持冷静——比建议本身更有价值，也显示出真正的分析。
• “One in five... and I've never once regretted the four”是对遵循建议的具体、量化的叙述。
• 结尾的概括把回答从一则趣事提升为一条原则，这是提前出现的第三部分语域。

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：

• whether people generally take advice they are given
• who young people turn to for guidance
• the difference between advice and instruction

如何应对第三部分讨论

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