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I started this LSAT journey with a quick pass through of the Kaplan logical reasoning approach and, honestly, there were still some pretty gaping holes in my comfort with logical reasoning translation. At first, I felt like the 7sage approach helped a lot... it is much more mechanical and requires memorization of those four groups and the translation strategy. This worked well for me while going through the initial lessons, but now that it's all mixed together, I am realizing that it's just not intuitive for me to translate the group 3 and 4 words so mechanically.
For example, I find it much easier to treat UNLESS as a logical indicator for the necessary term. Then, I simply replace the word "unless" with my arrow and negate the sufficient term (this was the part I often forgot while doing the Kaplan practice problems). However, Kaplan's way definitely made things easier when the sentence also contains a negative, so a group 4 word. In that case, it means what it is... that term is just a negative term. I don't have to flip things or rearrange the sentence to translate it.
My question is, if I treat "unless" and "without" in the way that Kaplan explained it to me, do I need to ignore the whole entire 7sage translation system? Or, I guess to say that differently, I am specifically wondering about translating in groups 3 and 4. Has anyone else found these two approaches conflicting or am I just looking at it the wrong way?
Which can be the better story? I've read that the best personal statements are well-written, fun to read, and say something about you that admissions staff may not know or easily could have overlooked from the rest of your application. I think you could keep both ideas on the table and try to fill in some details to each storyline before you make your decision.
As someone who has spent a few obsessive years in the Ironman triathlon world, I both love and hate talking about it. (Your joke was amazing, btw.) Triathlon is a great sport... you make incredible connections while training with others for such a huge undertaking, and you learn so much from both success and failure on race day and every step along the way. Training for an Ironman means you must be a dedicated, hard-working, goal-oriented person... and putting in the time and accomplishing a goal is addicting and wonderful. Sharing that with youth as a coach... all good stuff. Buuuuuut, 25 years of active duty military experience? I can't imagine there aren't some captivating life lessons in there.
Happy to read rough drafts if you need help deciding. Good luck!