Ep. 207: Showing, not Telling, with Peanut Butter
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2019
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
As the school year draws nigh, law schools are singing their siren’s song to try and lure 1L’s-to-be to their campuses. The guys take a look at a few law-school emails to see how these universities are pitching prospective students. Plus, the Nathan and Ben review a personal statement, and look at some questionable advice about timing yourself during LG sections. But before they dive in, the guys have a lil’ chat about the books they’re reading. Read more on our website!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 207 of the Thinking Elsat |
| 0:09.4 | podcast in Los Angeles. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Nathan Fox with me in Vienna, Virginia, Ben Olson. Ben what's happening? |
| 0:16.0 | I am listening to a book called Nonviolent Communication. Oh yeah, I started that one a long time ago. |
| 0:21.8 | I couldn't quite make it through it. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah, it's been interesting so far, but I have a tendency to question a lot of things that people assert as hard and fast truth. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, join the club, yeah, so anyways, I'm trying to think about, oh, like, you know, he makes |
| 0:40.9 | some claims about like the way we speak and he says things like |
| 0:45.2 | when you say I can't do something what you really mean is that you're choosing not |
| 0:50.5 | to or you don't want to and I think that's true in a lot of cases. |
| 0:54.4 | And his problem is like you're basically, the way you speak, the further away it is from reality, |
| 1:02.1 | the, I don't know, there's, it's not good, essentially, right? |
| 1:07.0 | Like, if you say you can't do something, but really you don't want to do it, you could if you wanted to, |
| 1:12.0 | you're just not choosing not to do it, you could if you wanted to, you're just not choosing not to do it. |
| 1:14.4 | By saying you can't do it, you're attributing responsibility for your inability to do something |
| 1:18.6 | to someone else or to something else, and then not really taking ownership of your life and in some ways that can be damaging I guess it's the idea but I was like okay okay so maybe I should start refrasing things I should say instead of saying I can't help this person or I can't do |
| 1:35.2 | X, Y, I just would prefer to do other things than do that. And that's true to some extent. But then I was thinking |
| 1:41.6 | about it, I'm like, at some point, you I was thinking about it I'm like at some point you literally |
| 1:44.4 | can't do things so anyways I just get kind of tied up in like logical knots |
| 1:50.1 | sometimes with people who are just trying to give probably practical advice, but I am trying to figure |
| 1:56.6 | out if it's actually true. I'm like, maybe you can't do some things and it's actually more |
| 2:00.5 | accurate to say that you can't. Interesting. I'm sorry, that's a total tangent. actually more |
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