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: Last semester is a reel you can replay to understand your study habits.
Challenge Yourself: If you’re willing to look at them honestly without shaming yourself, what worked—and what didn’t?
If I missed a goal in the past, I sometimes avoided replaying my reel of why I missed it because it felt like a form of punishment.
Almost a self-sabotaging event where I replayed everything I...
Insider Tip: Holiday break = recharge time.
Challenge Yourself: Have you hit full-on Netflix-hibernation mode on the couch yet? Bonus points if it lasts a whole day.
Happy New Year, Insiders!
Just popping in to say: I’m really glad you’re here.
Another year in the books—complete with cold calls, curveballs, late nights, LinkedIn spirals, quiet doubts, small wins, and hopefully at least one mo...
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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