Episode 69: Psychic Ben, Sticky Notes, and Inbox Zero

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2016

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

The recent release of The 10 Actual, Official LSAT Prep Tests 42-51 by the LSAC has Nathan and Ben all in a tizzy. While Nathan grumbles about the price, title, and layout, Ben is busy taking credit for willing the book into existence. (2:19)

This week, Ben’s Book Corner features Make It Stick- The Science of Successful Learning. The book identifies the study and learning techniques that are most effective for understanding and retaining new information. Check out Make It Stick to see if your own strategies could be improved. A word of warning: be careful not to confuse it with the similarly titled but very different Made to Stickor Stick It. (8:00)

Are you preparing for the LSAT and looking for even more study opportunities? Do you have eyes, ears, and…well that’s all you need, actually. Yes, you say? Perfect! Ben is looking for volunteers to review and rate videos from his LSAT prep class and you can contact him to sign up. (23:45)

Listener mail came pouring in this week, covering a variety of LSAT and law school topics, and we work through it to get our inbox back to zero. Kyle proposes, and Ben tries out, a new strategy for Reading Comp questions (46:56), Shiva is panicked about missing the September LSAT she planned to take (59:29), Basic Laurenjenna asks if Logic Games are harder on recent tests (1:07:50), and Boba Fett wants to know if a recommendation from 2015 can be used for a 2017 application (1:26:40).

Episode 69 concludes with a challenge from Ben to the Thinking LSAT listeners. Don’t worry, it doesn’t involve giving up your cell phone or juice fasts or anything. (1:53:56)

Got questions you want us to answer in a future podcast? Send us an email! Follow us at @thinkinglsat and tweet us a question!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 69 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast.
0:15.0	I am Ben Olson in Washington, D.C.
0:17.8	And with me as always is Nathan Fox.
0:20.7	Where are you, Nathan?
0:21.6	I'm in LA. Okay, That's the norm now right I think? Yeah 98% of the time although I was in San Francisco last weekend teaching and then I spent my Labor Day weekend on a trip down the coast, which was beautiful.
0:39.0	California is gigantic and really pretty.
0:43.2	So it was fun.
0:44.0	Yeah, so where did you stop?
0:46.0	What did you just went down the coast and?
0:47.9	One night in Monterrey, one night in San Louis Obispo.
0:52.0	Sto stopped and had lunch yesterday in Santa Barbara and then yeah made it back yesterday
0:57.8	Cool. Yeah, is the weather nice there? It's spectacular, yeah, everywhere.
1:04.3	Yeah, cool.
1:05.8	Well, it's really hot here, so it's like 90 and humid.
1:10.1	But that's DC, we're on of a swamp which is which is nice.
1:14.0	Yeah well anyways so today we have a lot of good stuff. There's a book I've been reading it's called Make It Stick by Peter Brown and a couple other authors.
1:25.6	It's actually the subtitle is more interesting.
1:28.6	Let me see here what it is exactly.
1:30.6	I have it on my phone.
1:32.2	It's the science of successful learning and it's basically
1:36.1	about all the research that's been done in the last 20 years on what learning
1:41.5	techniques are the most effective and how a lot of the most popular learning techniques are the most effective and how a lot of the most popular
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