Insider Tip: In the sea of law school advice and expert opinions, it's easy to lose sight of your most valuable compass: your inner voice.
ChallengeYourself: Are you inadvertently suppressing your instincts, potentially undermining your own academic potential?
In law school, I caught myself doing something I've worked really hard never to do as a lawyer and business owner: taking advice that went against my gut instinct.
Every time I ignored my intuition in school, I paid for it. And not just in whatever resulted from the bad advice, but something worse.
I got mad at myself for not listening to the voice in my head that knew what was best for me, regardless of what the "smart" people told me to do.
The Problem With Expert Advice
The study advice from an "expensive tutor" felt wrong—and it was. The calendaring strategy I learned from a "top influencer" felt off—and didn't work with my peak brain function times. The networking advice I got from the Big Law wealthy attorney felt slimy—and it was gross.
I should have listened to my own hesitation. Here's the problem with not doing that.
Insider Tip: The way you think shapes the way you outline.
Challenge Yourself: Take the quiz below to identify whether you’re a big-picture or detail-oriented thinker, and use that self-awareness to outline more efficiently.
Have you ever tried outlining a certain way just because other students were doing it? That’s totally normal—everyone does that at some point, trying to figure it out.
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Insider Tip: Success on multiple-choice exams isn’t just about memorizing rules—it’s about mastering the nuances and spotting the subtle difference between an almost right answer and the exactly right one.
Challenge Yourself: Set a goal for how many multiple-choice questions you’ll complete before midterms in each subject. Then go one level deeper—review every miss. Understanding why you got a...
Insider Tip: Academic struggles can be overcome by changing the way you organize, learn, and practice writing every topic before exams.
Challenge Yourself: Instead of just working harder, is there something you haven’t tried yet that could make things click?
We all struggle to learn in law school at some point.
The difference between students who struggle and those who seem to "just get it...
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