And so, if maybe over the past few weeks you, maybe you go out late one Friday night cause you just needed a break. You had a few too many drinks, then you go take a full length exam Saturday morning cause you feel like you should, even though you're probably not feeling that great and maybe it's not the best use of your time and you're better off sleeping a few more hours, guess what?
The test doesn't go well for you and it's because you're hungover. Your mind is cloudy and honestly you have no one to blame but yourself and I'm sorry to tell you that. But alcohol, drugs, these are not things that you have room for in your life right now if you want to achieve your maximum potential.
And we all know people who somehow are the comeback kid and somehow they're always able to roll off a binge like it was nothing, or they’re a pothead and they smoke every night and they’re still an uber-genius and can still get 175+. Those people, they're super-impressive.
I don't know how they do it. And they might not live to be 80, but most people are not that. I'm certainly not like that. And you might not be either. So what that means is that you need to take control of your mindset. Take control of your schedule. If you're studying for the exam only a few days away, these next 70 to 90 hours, whatever it is, you keep that very rigid.
Block out all the people and things in your life that are not setting you up for success. So if you have some emotionally-draining vampire friend who just wants to tell you all their problems, cut them off for the next few days. Say, “I'm busy. I've got the LSAT coming up, and I will check in with you afterwards.”
And you surround yourself with positive, uplifting people who want the best for you. And that means maybe you block all the narcissists on Facebook who are just trying to show off how concerned they are about the latest political thing. Or they're posting selfies of how great they look with their summer bod.
None of that matters right now. And you don't need to see some artificially-constructed perfect version of someone else's life. You need to sit there with your practice problems and put that positive media in front of yourself and believe me, you're not getting it on Facebook. You're not getting it on the news.
You're getting it from a carefully-curated reality that you've created for yourself (not what Facebook creates for you. You're putting something nice in front of yourself that you want to be there and it's either that, or the LSAT, or a walk in the park and that's all you do the next few days.
You are going into an isolation tank of butterflies and snowflakes. It's not going to be forever, but you need to make this your mission right now.
For more, I've got an entire LSAT Unplugged playlist focused on LSAT Test Day prep here -----> and several articles on LSAT Test Day prep here ----->
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