Tell me about a target you set for yourself that nobody asked you to hit. How did you hold yourself to it when no one was checking?

Assigned goals measure compliance; self-set ones measure drive. Moving the question from the achievement to the mechanism — tracking, checkpoints, what happened in the slack weeks — asks for material a rehearsed success story doesn't contain.

• Why that target, and why that size?
• What did you do the week it slipped?
• Who else knew about it, and why them?

A target with a reason behind it, a concrete tracking habit, a wobble handled with an adjustment rather than quiet abandonment, and a standard that outlived the goal itself.

An assigned quota relabeled as personal ambition, a suspiciously frictionless march to the number, or a target that seems to have been discovered after the fact for interview purposes.