Ep. 299: Slow Down to Speed Up
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
“How do I get faster?” LSAT teachers hear some version of this question every day. And Nathan and Ben’s answer will always be the same: Slow down and focus on accuracy. Speed comes naturally with time and practice—you can’t force it. The guys discuss what Nathan calls the fundamental paradox of the LSAT on this week’s episode. They also evaluate a submission for Pearls vs. Turds, tackle another logical reasoning question from PrepTest 73, and answer a variety of questions from the listener mailbag. Read more on our website!
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| 0:00.0 | If you're offended by the words on this podcast, you'll be mortified by the words in the legal profession. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 299 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast. Today on the show we have |
| 0:18.8 | been a listener sent in a Pearls versus Turds candidate that came from actual |
| 0:23.7 | ELSAQ. It's LSAQ's own thoughts on logical reasoning. Are you excited? |
| 0:30.5 | I am excited. I'd love to know what they think. I have been pleasantly surprised sometimes in the past and sometimes very |
| 0:38.0 | disappointed. Yeah, I'm not gonna tip my hand at, but I already have an opinion about their advice here. |
| 0:45.2 | But I'll try to keep it to myself and see if you agree. |
| 0:49.2 | Okay. I'm going to talk a little bit about last week's lesson. I don't know if you had a chance, |
| 0:55.0 | Ben, to read my column about slowing down to speed up and asking better questions, but we can chat a little bit about that. |
| 1:02.0 | We have a logical reasoning question from Prep Test 73 and we have a variety of stuff in the mailbag including an update from Sarah who we talked about last week was making a decision |
| 1:15.0 | about University of Wisconsin-Madison versus at a full ride versus UT Austin |
| 1:22.0 | paying for it. |
| 1:23.6 | And we did her strong advice to take that scholarship, |
| 1:26.6 | especially because she prefers Madison to Austin anyway. |
| 1:30.0 | So, yeah, we can all find out what Sarah decided to do. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm about to start. |
| 1:35.0 | Awesome. I'm about to start crying man. |
| 1:37.0 | My, uh... |
| 1:38.0 | Whoa. My eyes. I don't know. I think I have allergies or something so anyways it's also just touching to hear you |
| 1:46.0 | introduce the show so yeah the show is gonna air on Monday, May 24th. |
| 1:52.8 | That means you've got five days still |
| 1:55.8 | to decide whether to change from the June, |
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