Comments on: More on Bar Exams

By: liza

liza — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:55:48 +0000

We live “NOW”,not tommorrow or yesterday.To worry is to abandon the present and focus on an imaginary future that does not yet exist.In order to cope,one must be in step with the present.To plan and prepare for the future is different from worrying about the future.So I now apply this method of thinking to everything I do,even to my outlook when it comes to taking the Bar. — i really needed this. Thanks Wil and warriorlawyer

By: The Warrior Lawyer

The Warrior Lawyer — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:44:10 +0000

You are correct. It’s the fear and tension brought aboout by the expectation of either passing or failing that produces the anxiety. The needless worry affects your confidence level.

And talk about coincidences. My copy of Miyamoto Musashi’s Book of Five Rings was returned to me just last week, after having been in out of my possession for the better part of a year. It might be a good time for me to re-read this classic on focusing your mental and physical energies and living in the moment.

Good luck, Wilfred. You’re already halfway done. Only two Sundays to go.

By: Wilfred Magz

Wilfred Magz — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:39:31 +0000

Sir,

Kindly allow me to share some on my thoughts on this matter.

I can relate to that “reported receipt of emotional support was actually correlated with increased depression and anxiety in the bar examinee” thing.Why?Because “emotional support” makes a bar examinee feel guilty that he hasn’t studied hard enough and therefor does not deserve all that emotional support.Atleast,that’s how I felt.

Anyway,what really drives alot of barristers nuts is this fear of failing the bar exam.It’s the EXPECTATION of failing or passing that drives people insane.
Get over that,and 3/4′s of the crankiness,angst and stupid depression disappears.It’s what I did and I feel alot better now.

And about Mental Disengagement.Ditto.Uh,beer,anyone?Just a bottle or two once a week probably won’t do any harm.

Last Monday,while I was browsing at one of the bookstores in the mall,I came across “A Book of Five Rings” by Musashi Miyamoto.It was oddly coincidental because the evening before that,I was reading an article in this site by The WarriorLawyer.Fate led me to buy this book.Why?Although many regard to it as a book on strategy and swordsmanship,it also teaches about a proper philiosophical outlook in life.We live “NOW”,not tommorrow or yesterday.To worry is to abandon the present and focus on an imaginary future that does not yet exist.In order to cope,one must be in step with the present.To plan and prepare for the future is different from worrying about the future.So I now apply this method of thinking to everything I do,even to my outlook when it comes to taking the Bar.

To any barrister who comes across this article and this comment,I wish you the best of luck and remember one thing;RELAX.