Story Bank
A track of P60 · Answer Structure & Storytelling.
Mine your own experience into a reusable shortlist of stories, then shape each one around stakes, your actions and measurable change - including the honest failure story.
Structure without material is an empty scaffold: STAR cannot save you if, in the moment, no story comes to mind. This track builds the material side — a bank of your own experiences, found and shaped in advance, so that under pressure you choose from a labelled shelf instead of searching in the dark.
It opens with the mining expedition: a systematic sweep of your whole history — every role, project, conflict, failure and win — using retrieval cues that match how memory actually works, distilled to an 8–12 story shortlist and mapped to the competencies interviews probe. One good story tags three or four, which is how a small bank covers a large interview. Then the shaping craft: turning a one-line inventory entry into a tellable story — open with honest, concrete stakes; make your own decisions the spine; land on measurable change; trim every sentence of context that is not load-bearing. It closes on the two hardest tellings: the failure story that owns the mechanism without blame, and the competing-priorities story where the decision — and how you told the losing side — is the drama.
Everything here works on your real experiences, and the feedback assesses the telling, never the life; a low-stakes story is always an accepted choice.