Ambitious Students' Bootcamp
A Socratic Process For Highly Capable Students To Achieve Self Invention, Find Their Tribe, Determine Goals for Meaningful Impact
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Deliberately build self-identity and vision
Let's fast track your growth with practical frameworks that school doesn't offer. Ditch fear of failure, start dreaming big, explore the world and find the niche that is unique to you.
This is your ticket to being a driven and creative problem-solver, an idea hunter and producer, a confident leader.
You don't want to wait until after Uni or when you are unhappy in your first job to ask yourself who you are and who you want to be.
Do it now and you will be years in front. What are your values? Strengths? Types of intelligence? Role models? Aspirations? Fears? What's the tribe that you crave? What problems do you want to solve?
How do you get to where you want to be? What frameworks can help you the most?
Your parents and I advanced as if blindfolded and acquired lessons along the way. Here you can find the lessons you need already packaged and ready to go.
This course is very time sensitive. It is urgent for ambitious students aged 14-25. It will save you anger, frustration, and thousands of dollars.
As an ambitious student, you want to find out how and in which field you are going to change the world, make money and find self-worth.
School does not help you figure out what success looks like for you. This is what we will discover together.
Then we will look at mindsets, habits and strategies to get you there.
The course is fast, but very intense. I need your commitment. Don't do it for your parents, Don't do it for your teachers. This is for you. Are you ready?
Who is this course for?
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Driven students who want to be ahead of the pack, and save years, money, and frustration.
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Highly capable learners with much to offer to the world, but unsure what future to pursue or how to pursue it.
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Students who need to move from being told what to do to thinking with their own head, being driven, having an impact.
What you’ll get out of this course
We will be clear on the rules of the game.
We will start actively using the top frameworks for happiness and life satisfaction.
We will open the fan of experiences and hunt down environments that will develop character and skills.
We will apply creativity in problem solving.
We will build self-identity profiles: character strengths, skills and key experiences
We will use frameworks and prompts to reflect on experience and attitudes.
We will investigate character traits, values, leadership, creativity, activity, service, role models, cognitive biases, limiting beliefs and more.
This work can then serve as the basis for applications.
We will research problems, technologies, and role models.
We will build our T: what topics to we want to explore superficially? Which ones do we want to explore in depth?
Who should we follow as role models? What problems do we want to solve? Can we already define a mission?
We are going to work on our individual definition of success
Everyone in the cohort is ambitious, but for what? Everyone's definition of success will be completely different and just as valid.
Keeping in mind our values, experiences and aspirations, we are going to draft individual definitions of success.
What habits, mindsets and strategies are going to help us on the way?
From emotional awareness and emotional control, to areas of comfort and areas of control, from love of experimental failure to seeing problems as opportunities, we are going to spotlight top mindsets, habits and strategies to get to our definition of success.
By the end of the course, you will have developed insight, a map of your goals, and mindsets, habits and strategies to reach them.
What’s included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Mariacristina Saraceno, Coaching Ambitious Learners Worldwide. MSc in Applied Neuroscience, MA in Diplomatic Studies. in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
5 live sessions • 24 lessons • 19 projects
Week 1
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First frameworks. Your mission is INVENTING YOURSELF
Complete by Jul 13 - 📄
Comfort Zone vs Area of Control: Where You Want Be and What You Should Avoid
Complete by Jul 13 - 📄
Opening the fan of opportunities
Complete by Jul 13 - ✍️
How is your time currently spent? When can your find 1hr blocks for research?
Submit by Jul 13 - 📄
Have your parents clearly taught you strategies for happiness?
Complete by Jul 13 - ✍️
How are you chasing happiness at the moment?
Submit by Jul 13 - 📄
Does Money = Happiness?
Complete by Jul 13 - ✍️
Where do you stand on money right now?
Submit by Jul 13 - 📄
Watching and mastering your thoughts (they are not always the Truth!)
Complete by Jul 13 - ✍️
Watch your thoughts for 3 minutes every day
Submit by Jul 13 - 📄
Unless you solve someone else's problems, you won't get paid
Complete by Jul 15 - ✍️
Unresearched – What kind of problems would I like to solve?
Submit by Jul 15 - 📄
To live in the moment or not to live in the moment?
Complete by Jul 15 - ✍️
Unresearched – Vision
Submit by Jul 15 - 📄
The difference between success and happiness
Complete by Jul 15 - ✍️
The six lives exercise
Submit by Jul 15 - ✍️
Refining your vision
Submit by Jul 15 - 📄
What should you know about yourself?
Complete by Jul 18 - ✍️
Your Self-Awareness CV
Submit by Jul 18 - 📄
Intellectual Curiosity Unleashed: Building Your T
Complete by Jul 19 - ✍️
Intellectual Curiosity Unleashed
Submit by Jul 19 - 📄
Modelling successful people
Complete by Jul 19 - ✍️
Follow your Role Models
Submit by Jul 15 - 📄
Volunteering needs to be FUN, not tragic
Complete by Jul 22 - ✍️
Research volunteering opportunities in your area or online
Submit by Jul 22 - 📄
Researching opportunities and building funnels
Complete by Jul 22 - ✍️
Experiences and programmes funnels
Submit by Jul 22 - 📄
Basic Mindsets I expect you to be familiar with
Complete by Jul 29 - 📄
Becoming an idea hunter and reshuffler: resourceful creativity
Complete by Jul 29 - 📄
From Fear of Failure to Bias For Action
Complete by Jul 29 - ✍️
What are you going to action this week?
Submit by Jul 29 - 📄
From Asking for Help to Figuring things out and Asking for Feedback
Complete by Jul 29 - ✍️
What is a project you can develop this month?
Submit by Jul 29 - 📄
One Per Cent Better Every Day
Complete by Jul 29 - 📄
Fragile vs Antifragile
Complete by Jul 29 - 📄
Means goals vs end goals
Complete by Jul 30 - ✍️
What are your means and end goals?
Submit by Jul 30 - 📄
SMART goals and Moonshots
Complete by Jul 30 - ✍️
Generate 3 SMART goals and 10 Moonshots.
Submit by Jul 30 - 📄
Putting it all together: your own goal map
Complete by Jul 30 - ✍️
Build your own 1 and 10 year goal map
Submit by Jul 30
Jul
6
The Game: Inventing Yourself. These are the Rules
The Game: Inventing Yourself. These are the rules
Imagine yourself in a few years: what do you see? Chances are you are not clear yet. You need to explore. These are the guideline for you to discover who you want to be.
Jul
7
Let's figure out what success looks like for you
Let's figure out what success looks like for you
Ignore the narrow definition of scoring good marks. What is YOUR definition of success in the medium to long term? You need to figure it out, or you will proceed as if blindfolded. Let's find your North Star
Jul
8
Who are you now? Self awareness regarding your values, fears, priorities and more
Who are you now? Clarity over your values, fear, priorities
You can't go where you want to without knowing where you are now. This is a fast and furious, guided self awareness session.
Jul
9
Researching ideas and opportunities
Hunting for Ideas and Opportunities
No lightbulb moment is going to offer you your goal list on a silver plate. You need to research and try many fields, problems, technologies, role models and see what sticks, to then go in depth and manipulate the ideas to create your own.
Jul
10
My goal map, mindsets and habits
Mindsets
We are our mindsets, so we'd better choose them well. Here is a spotlight on the most useful ones at this stage.
Your Goal Map
Let's define a clear direction for all your efforts. Some goals will be common to all, like finding your tribe, but where?
Others will be extremely unique to each one of you.
Bonus
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Why should I care about my dopamine?
Complete by Aug 5 - ✍️
How do I currently get my dopamine?
Submit by Aug 5
Managing your Dopamine
Understanding a little neuroscience goes a long way.
Consciously deciding how we get our dopamine will get us much closer to our goals.
You can have this course as a private one-on-one mentoring, rather than group sessions.
It will be completely tailor-made to you. Just get in touch at mc@ambitious students.club and we will organise.
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There are 3 scholarships for this course.
If you are from a lower socio-economic background, or if you live in remote locations, please apply writing to mc@ambitiousstudents.club detailing the reasons why you would like to participate in the bootcamp on scholarship.
How do you actually get insight? It is no lightbulb moment.
What if you coasts?
Most adults never worked on self-awareness, so they react haphazardly to what life throws at them. This results in reacting with erratic behaviours, frustration and strife.
Is this what you want?
Let's work on your hidden potential instead.
Meet your instructor
Mariacristina Saraceno, Coaching Ambitious Learners Worldwide. MSc in Applied Neuroscience, MA in Diplomatic Studies.
Mariacristina Saraceno, Coaching Ambitious Learners Worldwide. MSc in Applied Neuroscience, MA in Diplomatic Studies.
Call me MC
WHY ME?
My uncle was a highly capable learner. He committed suicide at age 17. That's why I care and why I have made it my mission to support ambitious life-long learners.
I have 4 teens, all with distinct strengths and interests, all in the process of figuring out what success looks like for them and what sort of problems they want to solve in their lives.
I combine sales and training skills learnt in the City of London working for Bloomberg and Salomon Brothers with Neuroscience/Mental Health knowledge from my MSc from King's College. On top of that you get my diplomatic background from my MA and from being Honorary Consul to Papua New Guinea. You benefit from my personal development background, and ASIST and Mental Health First Aid qualifications.
As a coach, I have helped many students with the content of this course. I have also helped them apply to US universities and prepare for job interviews.
Seeing the ambitious students I serve thrive gives me energy and life satisfaction.
My mission is to support ambitious students and their parents in the transition to adulthood with personalised career advice, personal development and application/interview coaching, no matter where they may be in the world.
You will benefit from my enthusiasm and expertise alike.
Recordings will be available, but the live sessions are where the magic happens
2hr on Saturday and Sunday, 3 weekends
What to Bring
Ideally you will have a dedicated Notebook and pen, a phone and a computer or tablet.
If you have 2 devices, it will be easier for you to do some research, or to fill in some task when prompted.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects.
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams, and make friends.
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you. You can support each other and become accountability partners through your adventures.