1 min lesson
The five prompts to rehearse
Match each case in "The five prompts to rehearse" to the signal and response that fit it.
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The five prompts to rehearseCover the EM canon
A bar-raising call you made, especially a borderline no.
How you defined the bar and the signal you trusted.
Ties to: high talent-density mindset.
The specific gap, the plan, the timeline, the outcome.
Whether they recovered or you exited them and how.
Ties to: reliability ownership, talent density.
A real disagreement - with a peer, a report or an exec.
What you actually said and how it resolved.
Ties to: truth-seeking, spirited debate.
A slip you owned, the root cause, the fix.
What you changed so it didn't recur.
Ties to: ownership, intellectual honesty.
The fifth prompt is a changed-my-mind moment: a time evidence flipped a strong-held position of yours. Cursor's culture prizes truth-seeking over ego, so a candidate who can't recall ever being wrong reads as someone who isn't actually weighing evidence.