> My mind literally goes blank. This has been exactly my experience with questions like this. My brain just doesn't archive memories in that way at all and fee

> My mind literally goes blank. This has been exactly my experience with questions like this. My brain just doesn't archive memories in that way at all and feels totally backwards to me. To answer questions like those, I'd have to sit down and think for some minutes to re-index all my past experiences to fit the framework of that specific question. I don't know if this is a shortcoming of my memory or character, but all this has done in the past was to make me sit down and prep examples for every possible "tell me about a time when..." question, which I find an absolutely grueling exercise. It's not that I'm not an introspective person or learn from my past experiences; I just don't frame them in my mind in a way that I'd be able to single out specific past situations for an immediate retelling, especially during an interview. I would go as far as to guessing that most people are probably like that, but we've accepted this is how interviews work, hence all the interview prep for questions like that.