Bar Exam Preparation
Our first date ended with her car getting towed.
She was the type of person to schedule her showers by the minute because of her absurd rotation schedule in med school. Yet she had taken three hours out of her life to meet me again for a second date.
I wanted to hold her hand so bad. A perfect pretext to see how she felt about me… that I ruined because I lacked three seconds of courage.
I was interviewed in an episode of the Bar Study Motivation Podcast.
Give it a listen as you wind down for the day. I think you’ll find at least one good nugget you can use for your bar preparation. Some convenient timestamps:
Continue reading “Bar Study Motivation Podcast”“I’m taking the bar exam in a few months. Where do I start? What should I know?”
They say hindsight is 20/20. Let’s look ahead instead of thinking backward.
Here’s how to get 20/20 FORESIGHT: Study your predecessors, especially the ones who took the bar more than once.
Luckily for you, I already asked your fellow students for help. Here’s what they had to say after coming out of the trenches:
Continue reading “One Non-negotiable Study Strategy for the Bar Exam”
As the exam gets closer, just remember that you are capable of passing the bar.
You may pass this time, or you may not. Let’s trust our preparation, be arrogant, and do our best anyway. Our best now is enough even if our future best will be better.
But if you can graduate from law school, you do have it in you to make this your last time.
Like Kathleen who was a mother in her late 40s who graduated from a barely accredited law school.
Like Naoki and Ferdinand who never even went to an American law school.
Like Sam and James and other foreign-trained attorneys.
Even if you fail the bar, it’s not going anywhere. It’s going to stay in the same spot, while you keep getting closer and closer like a predator moving in on a prey. Therefore, passing is inevitable.
It doesn’t matter where you start. This is an acquirable skill. You can always get better. It’s always a work in progress.
You will get to a state of being where the exam is over (possibly for good).
On the upside, it won’t be as bad as the months of waiting in anxiety and ennui you’ll have to go through. But you can worry about that later.
Happy new year! It’s that time again when everyone suddenly forgets the correct year.
By the way, I don’t believe your “resolutions.” Look at your friends saying, “Hey, I’m SERIOUS about my New Year’s resolutions. THIS time it’s for real.”
Sure buddy. If they really wanted to do something, they would have started or done it already.
I won’t let you simply declare your resolve and call it a day. Anyone can have good intentions. Anyone can be interested. Prove that resolve by actually showing me results.
Let your results speak for themselves.
Before you start shouting at the wrong person (aka me), let me ask you this: How are those resolutions from 12 months ago going?
Thought so. Vague wishes are unsustainable for most people, myself included. Estimates put the “failure” rate of resolutions around 75-92%. But I don’t want you to be just another ordinary citizen.
No, I want your next year to be AMAZING. I want you to get everything you want, whether it’s to…
Let’s do it. How can we mark the new year (and every year after that) with extraordinary results? My two cents:
Continue reading “The Year of Extraordinary Results: 4 Ways to Pass the Bar This Year”