Episode 81: Don’t Hurry, Be Happy

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2017

⏱️ 89 minutes

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“Timmy,” a 44-year-old who is established in a successful non-law career, is looking to achieve his Bucket List goal of earning a JD. After taking the December test and receiving a 162, Timmy is wondering whether he should continue studying to increase his score or just apply with his score as is. (9:38)

Brian is about to turn 30 and, after completing his undergrad degree in 2014, is looking forward to the next stage of his professional life. His family runs a successful law firm that he spent a lot of time helping out at, and Brian has finally agreed to join this enterprise as a full-fledged lawyer. Now that he’s made his plan, Brian wants to speed through the LSAT and law school so he can “hit the ground running” at the family firm. Nathan encourages him to take the time necessary to decide if law is truly the profession that will make him happy. Ben shares a story of his own legal experience at the Department of Justice and how it affected his career. Both guys suggest Brian spend more time prepping for the LSAT so he can both earn scholarships and get a better feel for what he’ll be up against when he takes the Bar exam. (29:38)

We spend the second half of this episode working on two Logical Reasoning problems from the June 2007 LSAT. To play at home, just download the free test, work through Section 3, Questions 15 and 16, and listen in as we discuss the solutions in detail. (#15 at 55:03 and #16 at 1:07:01)

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0:14.8	Hello and welcome to episode 81 of the Thinking Elseat Podcast podcast this is Ben Olson in Washington DC which is about to be turned upside down by the inauguration
0:20.0	with me is Nathan Fox and how's it going Nathan?
0:25.0	Just fine. Did you accept your invitation to perform at the inauguration?
0:30.0	Of course why would I why would I turn that down? So it's going to be you and there's some clean comic I saw who's who's signed up.
0:40.0	A clean comic. Yeah, those are always really entertaining.
0:44.7	And I don't know.
0:46.7	The Springsteen cover band didn't make it.
0:48.7	So.
0:49.7	Yeah, I heard a lot of people just couldn't find tickets to fly in and perform.
0:55.7	Oh, is that what it was?
0:58.0	No, I think people are much more opposed vocally, yeah.
1:02.4	I don't know who's not going and who is going but I've heard that a lot of people have declined to come which is not surprising.
1:09.0	Yeah. Right now we are in the strategy prep headquarters if you will.
1:17.0	Nice. Not much of a headquarters but we can call it that because I guess technically it is.
1:23.9	We are just inside of the green zone,
1:27.2	which kind of makes me feel like something related to Baghdad.
1:31.5	But we're inside of the green zone zone which means you can't drive in without
1:35.2	ID but that doesn't sound yeah that doesn't sound too hard to get through and then
1:41.8	there's the red Zone, which is, of course, the mall, the National
1:46.8	Mall and the White House and stuff like that. And no cars can go in there. But that's all starting tomorrow at noon. So, you know, just we'll have some
1:58.8	little shutdown here. We're not too far from the White House. we're about five or six blocks.
2:04.4	Are you even going to go to work the day of the inauguration?
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