Interviews and applications

Hi all,

I stumbled onto this website through the videos on Youtube and spent a good portion of my time going through content yesterday afternoon and evening.  As a result I had a few strange dreams  (I always have strange and vivid dreams, anyway), but I awoke with an excitement that I can’t “get rid of”, not that I want to!!

anyway, my question is this:

When it comes to the interviews and applications, is there any personal work that we should be doing before applying (such as working through fears) that would help our chances of being selected?

On the Instructions page, Max has written some questions/topics to consider in the application.  Is it preferred that we work at our responses (say, writing out an essay), or are they looking for our first-hand, gut-instinct answers?