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A goals and motivation essay framework can help you capture all the right contexts. For the Kellogg MBA, the admissions team has included 5 contexts: 

1) Intentionality

Intentionality in a narrative is a style that clearly shows ‘purpose’ in your action. 

“The man - shirtless, grease all over his body with a facemask jumped on to the window, barely holding onto the bars. He scanned the room from right to left. I sat at the left corner, two feet away from the Window. We looked at each other with shock and surprise waiting to see who will start the conversation.

5 seconds passed.

Who are you?

“I heard a burglar was in the neighborhood. We were just checking.”

Atul Jose (Admissions Consultant, F1GMAT): I will start with the motivation behind writing F1GMAT's Essay Guides. When I started consulting and offering editing services – officially – way back in 2012, there was no one offering any sample essays – free or otherwise. Even blogging like how we are seeing now was not prevalent in the MBA admissions market. The first version of Winning MBA Essay Guide or any school-specific Essay Guides had no samples in it. But after reading the 100th book about writing, I noticed that apart from a couple of books, no one showed the work.

Our curiosity is driven by internal motivations - desire for new information, openness to novel stimuli, finding the last piece of the puzzle, and a strong urge to escape boredom.

For Harvard MBA application essay on curiosity and growth, thrill seeking and curiosity to escape boredom has limited relevance. 

A big misconception applicants have is around the value of an Admissions Consultant.

I get this question quite a lot – are you an MBA?

Does an MBA Admissions Consultant be an MBA Alum?

The question shows that the applicant is at the early stage of researching consultants.

Question 2 (450 words): Kellogg leaders are primed to tackle challenges everywhere, from the boardroom to their neighborhoods. Describe a specific professional experience where you had to make a difficult decision. Reflecting on this experience, identify the values that guided your decision-making process and how it impacted your leadership style.

Leadership might have become a clichéd essay topic, but not for Kellogg. 

In this in-depth MIT Sloan MBA essay and cover letter tips, I cover:
•   Background Information
•   Mission, Values and Traits
•   What to Highlight
•   What not to Highlight