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A chain of small choices
Tell the story of how a series of tiny, unremarkable choices led somewhere you never expected.
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Tell the story of how a series of tiny, unremarkable choices led somewhere you never expected.
Tell the story of a day you made a decision that changed your direction.
Tell the story of someone you got completely wrong when you first met them.
Start from a single small detail you can see right now and build a whole short story outward from it.
Choose an ordinary object near you and tell its invented life story — where it was made, whose hands it passed through, how it ended up here.
Tell the story of a misunderstanding — how it started and how it got sorted out.
Start here and continue the story: 'The lift doors opened on a floor that should not have existed.'
Tell the story of a risk you took that could easily have gone badly.
Tell a real story from your life, then retell the ending as it might have gone instead.
React to three statements about work. Use: I couldn't agree more, that's a fair point, I see what you mean but, I'm not so sure, it depends.
Argue a position on city cars. Use: admittedly, that said, the flip side, a compelling case, it stands to reason, on the whole.
Describe how your attitude to something shifted over time. Use: ambivalent, wary, indifferent, exhilarated, disillusioned, vindicated, at peace with.