Nate’s Notes 127: Brent Dunn Part 1 | Volcano Hunter & LSAT Instructor

I loved hearing about Brent’s rejection from a premier school, his acceptance, his expulsion from chemistry for shooting projectiles toward his teacher, moving to Finland for a church mission, proposing to his girlfriend two weeks after their first one-on-one date, defaulting into a philosophy major, chasing volcanoes, and becoming an LSAT teacher.

We also covered logical fallacies: inaccurate word strength, insufficient evidence, faulty comparisons, fallacious appeals to authority, ad hominem attacks, confusing correlation with causation, and others.

Every time I listen to Brent I learn new things, I’m entertained, and I feel like I get a little smarter. But as we mentioned in the interview, this was only Part 1. Please tune in to the next episode where we discuss Brent’s excellent book. You’ll learn new things, you’ll be entertained, and I believe you’ll become a better person.

I hope you enjoyed this episode with Volcano Hunter and ACE LSAT founder and instructor, Brent Dunn.

Brent Dunn Bio:

Brent Dunn is one of the greatest teachers I’ve ever had. And I’m sure thousands of other students feel the same way about Brent as I do. Brent teaches people how to be smarter, or at least how to think more logically and critically. And it is because of Brent that I was able to attend Stanford Law School.

Brent is the owner and founder of ACE Test Preparation, where he has taught more than 6,000 students how to “Ace” the LSAT. During his 27 years of teaching, his students’ average score is above the 90^th percentile, and he even taught the first person who got a perfect raw score on the LSAT in the current format. Brent has lectured on the LSAT around the country, everywhere from Harvard to Hawaii.

In Brent’s free time he teaches spin classes and pottery. He also made his own (and his daughter’s) wedding cakes, has biked around Iceland, collected all of the original set of Pokemon in Pokemon Go, drove a Zamboni, and poked sticks into flowing lava. He is fluent in English, Finnish, and German, with basic proficiency in French, Spanish, Italian, and Icelandic.

In this first of two episodes with Brent, we learn Brent’s history, including both how became a volcano hunter and an LSAT instructor. And then we get to learn from Brent the same methods of reasoning that he has taught thousands of students. It is these teachings on logic and reasoning, which Brent teaches so clearly and entertainingly, that have helped thousands of law students achieve their dreams of getting accepted to the most prestigious schools around the world.

This episode will be required listening for my children because it will make them smarter. It will help them think more clearly and enable them to spot logical fallacies that are so common in journalism, politics, business, and even in school.

I believe Brent has improved my brain more than anyone else on earth, so I hope you enjoy learning from Brent Dunn today, because I always do.