KCups have regular coffee inside , not instant coffee . It will need to be brewed . <| sep |> Relevant skills transfer over seems like the simple answer . It ' s pretty easy to see how if you look at philosophy contributes to different sections of the LSAT . Reading Comprehension We build this skill when we try to understand another philosopher ' s argumentview . The sheer amount of primary sources we go through is immense , curriculums seem designed to force you to understand essaysbooks which were originally meant for the philosopher ' s peers to read . Rarely do you find syllabi which include a textbook with someone explaining things to you . Rarely do professors explain the material beforehand . You show up to class having read the material , profs might go over it quickly and clear up confusion , but classes are focused on exploring the ideas you ' re supposed to have read . And ofc another benefit is that in doing a philosophy of course , you ' re going to learn to read material that might be foreign to you . E . g . Do phil of mind and prepare to read cogsci papers , along with nonanalytic philosophical readings . Logical Reasoning We do this all the time in understanding an argument , and creating our own . Logic Games In my experience this is just the formal distillation of the previous section . Can you deal with abstract reasoning ? Well after 34 years at university and your basic firstsecondyear logic course , you should be somewhat adept at this . Writing Samples Christ this is all we do in philosophy it seems . From the day you start in PHIL 101 , to the end of your degree you ' re going to be writing essayspresenting in seminarsetc . You ' re busy spending a good chunk of your time learning to communicate that brilliant inarticulable thought you just had , in a way that others who weren ' t privy to it can understand . And it helps that the authors you tend to read are decent writers . Of course , I doubt philosophy shortens the learning curve on every other field of study . I doubt that my training in philosophy would make it any easier to learn dance , or filmmaking , or other fields where knowhow seems quite important .