Answers in interviews in the corporate, numerous websites, coaching academies and a culture of seeking some smart answer or ideal answer by the present society has made you ask this question.
I don’t know a smart answer to this question. I also consider this culture itself of seeking some smart answer as flawed. Let me explain my outlook to answering such questions:
- Once you have gone to attend SSB or any interview you should be confident that you are fit for selection or else you should not go.
- If you are confident you know that despite your flaws you are still okay to be selected & are open to sharing your flaws with the selectors without any inhibitions.
- Since you are a unique creation of God & so is your mother, your genuine answer to the question will be unique and hence all the advice available in the world will not alter your answer. If you alter your answer based on some advice then you are not being honest.
Hence please take my ‘old school’ advice of ‘no smart acts’ and don’t seek any advice to answer such questions & just answer the truth.
Incidentally my mother could maintain her cheer in adversity much better than I could do when I went for SSB or can do even now!
By: Col. MM Nehru
Col. MM Nehru
Email : nofrillsacademy@gmail.comWhile in the Army as a Colonel, Judged Reality Show, “Mission Army-Desh ke Rakshak” of National Geographic in 2011.
Selector for Defence Services at 17 SSB, Bangalore.SPORTS & FITNESS RELATED EXPERIENCE:
Trained Services/ national/international level boxers.
Trained Services athletes.
Top level Tennis player in India (above 55 years age category).
