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1. Work on building patience. These days due to various reasons, attention span has reduced a quite a bit. It takes a little practice to keep yourself focused and not to distracted so that you don't lose your chain of thought.
2. Try and read more i.e. the law itself and case laws. Don't rely on articles and secondary research available online. Secondary research is someone else's view (which may or may not be accurate) and lot of times, people have different reasons for writing such stuff. So please don't take it all on face value.
3. Work on your English so that you don't have to necessarily rely on online tools to spot/fix errors.
4. Pick up a hobby. It could be anything - painting, reading, dancing, running, gym etc. basically anything. This will help you blow off you steam when you start working.
These are all very basic hygiene checks which should be kept in mind. Feel free to discard/disregard.
Will just add a few more points:
5. Take care of your health. Take out at least 30-60 mins every day for this. Make it a habit before you get into the profession — irrespective of whether you choose litigation, firm, whatever — you're going to be very crunched for time and will start finding excuse to delay it. It comes to bit you suddenly if you ignore this. Have seen way too many examples, myself included.
6. Network like crazy. All your law school colleagues, people you meet at internships, etc. Keep a good relationship with everyone. They're going to be very useful. Network is your net worth.
Make contacts
Everything else is just timepass activity.
So kids, if you can and want to escape, do an MBA and just get out of this profession. There is nothing worth it in this career. The glitz and glam and passion that we may strive for is less than 1% of the lawyers in total.
So... RUN !!!!!!