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Today we are talking with Ariel  \nSalzer, a bar tutor on our team, about a very important topic: self-sabotaging behavior while studying for the bar exam. Your Bar Exam Toolbox hosts are Alison Monahan and Lee Burgess, that's me.  \nLee Burgess: We're here to demystify the bar exam experience so you can study effectively,  \nstay sane and hopefully pass and move on with your life. We're the co-creators of the Law School Toolbox, the Bar Exam Toolbox, and the career-related website, CareerDicta. Alison also runs The Girl's Guide to Law School.  \nLee Burgess: If you enjoy the show, please leave a review on your favorite listening app, and  \ncheck out our sister podcast, the Law School Toolbox podcast. You have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to us. You can reach us via the contact form on [barexamtoolbox.com](barexamtoolbox.com) and we'd love to hear from you. With that, let's get started.  \nLee Burgess: Welcome back! Today we are talking about self-sabotaging behavior while  \nstudying for the bar exam with Ariel Salzer, one of our bar tutors here at the Bar Exam Toolbox. So, Ariel, I feel like this is something we talk about a lot at The Bar Exam Toolbox. And that this is something that almost every bar student struggles with, one way or another.  \nAriel Salzer: Absolutely. On different levels and different ways, but I would agree with that.  \nLee Burgess: So even you, who is a bar exam expert, did you have self-sabotaging behavior  \nwhen you studied?  \nAriel Salzer: I did. It sounds weird in retrospect, but I was working so hard at trying to pass  \nthe bar, that I didn't understand how much it sabotaged me not to take breaks, and I would do things like go through flashcards during breakfast, never, ever give myself much of a rest. Then, run rules in my head as I was trying to fall asleep at night.  \nAriel Salzer: It made me so exhausted, and finally it had to stop because I was running on  \nempty, but it's easy, sometimes, to think hard work is the end all be all, and you really do need to give yourself those mental breaks. We're not just talking about the people that slack off, working too much can also be sabotaging.  \nLee Burgess: Yeah, and this is something, I mean, wasn't there one bar season where the  \nStarbucks person that commented on how much you came to Starbucks while working.  \nAriel Salzer: Yeah. Yes, yes. There was a student who said something to me one time like,  \n\"Well, I have my fourth Red Bull and then I throw up and then I drink another  \nRed Bull, and then I go back,\" and I was sort of like, \"Wait, wait, wait, wait, stop. Why are you drinking so much Red Bull that you throw up every single day?\"  \nAriel Salzer: And she was like, \"oh, it always happens like this to me. \" And I was sort of like,  \n\"That's not normal. \"  \nLee Burgess: Yeah, no that's not.  \nAriel Salzer: You need to not do that. Yeah, so sometimes we don't even see it in ourselves.  \n\"This is my process. I drink four Red Bulls. Whatever. \"  \nLee Burgess: Yeah, I mean, I definitely have my own self-sabotaging behavior. I think, when I  \nwas studying for the bar, I would get sucked into the busy work, because I think it's just so easy to do, and we'll talk about that more in a bit, but it's just so easy to count the hours you're working instead of evaluating what you're spending time on. I got on this kick that I had to make flash cards, even though I hate flashcards, I never used flashcards in law school, but my mom had told me the story about how she had these thousands of flashcards that she studied for the bar with, and everybody's making flashcards, so I remember I spent a week making property flashcards that I never used because I don't study off of flashcards well.  \nAriel Salzer: Flashcards are a common one, actually, I have to say.  \nLee Burgess: Yeah, yeah.  \nAriel Salzer: And I've seen maybe one student that I think actually benefited from all those  \nhours spent making ","cbCaijWrBUf16hnt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijWrBUf16hnt","pdf",198128,21,"English","# Self-sabotaging behavior while studying for the bar exam\n## Overworking and skipping breaks\n## Flashcards and busy work\n## Sleep deprivation and mental retention\n## Perfectionism and outline formatting","[{\"question\":\"Why can working too hard become self-sabotaging during bar prep?\",\"answer\":\"Overworking without taking mental breaks can exhaust you and disrupt clear thinking and retention. 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