Episode 66: Book Recommendations, Time Wasters, and When Good Habits Go Bad

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We open Episode 66 with some book recommendations; Ben is enjoying Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez and Nathan just finished Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Reading these could expand your mind and your vocabulary; at the very least, they will be more interesting than reading The Economist. (2:40)

Mike, a dedicated listener and student of Nathan’s, writes in to discuss his personal battle with the LSAT. Mike was the picture of LSAT prep perfection- he completed 35 full practice tests, improved his diet and fitness routine, and even listened to every episode of Thinking LSAT… twice. All signs pointed to Mike acing the June 6th test, and then disaster struck. Listen to Mike’s heartbreaking tale, and hear our advice on how he can put that day behind him and move forward to success. (17:42)

We begin Section 3 of Logic Games from the June 2007 LSAT, completely working through Questions #1 and #2. Download the free test here and try the questions, then listen in for our explanation. (48:04)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 66 of the Thinking Elsat podcast in Los Angeles, California.
0:14.2	I'm Nathan Fox.
0:15.2	With me in Washington, D.C.
0:16.8	is Ben Olson.
0:17.9	Ben, how you doing?
0:19.1	Doing great.
0:21.1	I'm coming to you live from my bed right now because I moved all my stuff from my apartment in San Francisco
0:29.3	got here yesterday to my place in LA and I've got boxes and boxes all over the place including I can't
0:36.3	get access to my desk right now.
0:38.6	So I have set up a little workstation here in bed.
0:44.3	Yeah.
0:45.2	Hope I sound all right.
0:46.0	Hope it works out.
0:47.9	So is your mic on your lap?
0:50.3	No, I'm laying on my stomach, actually actually for people who want to picture this at home
0:55.4	I don't know why exactly what we want
0:58.0	Yeah, I was just trying to imagine this mic is big so no, I've I've just got everything all sitting on my bed it probably actually is going to be really good for the sound because it won't be echoy too much because it's you know the bed will like absorb all the extra echoes and stuff. Yeah. Maybe this will be my new recording studio.
1:13.4	It'll be awesome.
1:14.4	I'll be like Hugh Hefner style doing the podcast.
1:18.6	That's exactly the image we wanted.
1:20.4	Yeah.
1:21.4	No, wait, are you moving out of your San Francisco apartment or are you going to keep that place?
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