Scene to read · Resilience, Problem solving
Dry each one
You are standing in your flooded basement with your partner and your mother.
A burst pipe soaked the boxes of childhood things you had kept: photographs, school reports, drawings. The rented dumpster outside is collected tomorrow morning. Your partner, Malcolm, and your mother, Huda, have each picked up a wet box.
The scene
Malcolm: It already smells of mold. Everything goes in the dumpster today.
Huda: These are your baby pictures. Give me a week. I'll dry each one.
Malcolm: A week of wet paper down here, and the walls go too.
Huda: Some things you can't buy again. They're yours. What do you want?
The two questions
- 1What would you decide, and what would you say to Malcolm and Huda?
- 2After a loss, how do you decide what is worth the effort of saving and what to let go?
What raters look for
- Resilience
- Recovers from setbacks, manages stress constructively, and learns from failure.
- Problem solving
- Gathers facts before acting, considers options and consequences, and chooses a workable next step.
Answer scenarios like this on the real timers
Answer both questions on the clock, and get each one scored 1–9 the way raters score. Your first set is free, no card.
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