<aside> ❓ This page is for tracking your engagement and your progress with the resources on the resource page we have shared with you. Engaging with the prequisite topics and beyond independently is essential for your successful application for our programme.

Click on the triangle below to fold/unfold the instructions and guidance for your application. **

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This page is the template for your personal progress tracker ****in Notion. You are required to use it to plan your work and track your progress while preparing for the programme. You can use the tracker to store your personal notes and insights, as well as additional resources, for example. That’s up to you! However, note that maintaining this progress tracker is key for a successful application to the programme. All that you put on this tracker will count as evidence of your engagement.

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Watch and follow these video guides to walk you through this tracker and the Preparation Stage. Make sure to read the guidance on this tracker as well!

[WE WILL SEND YOU THE LINKS TO THE VIDEO GUIDES PER EMAIL LATER]

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Important Information! Read carefully!

Topics & Timeline

<aside> ❓ Here you can set yourself reading deadlines and record your notes, thoughts and insights about each topic.

• We have added the required prep tasks for the programming to give you an example of how to use the tracker. Feel free to modify, break them down, and expand on them.
• Add your own learning tasks for the remaining prep work.
• Although the final deadline for completing the prep work is August 31, 2025 23:59 (GMT+2), you should plan and spread out your work, and set your own internal deadlines. Mind the challenges you will be send one week before the final deadline.
• We recommend to work through the subtopics of each topic in the suggested order on the resources page. However, you will need to work on the different topics in parallel each week. </aside>

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More guidance:

• If you have covered some of the prerequisites in a previous programme, school, or a university lecture, put (pictures of) your notes and exercises you have done on this tracker as evidence. Note that everything needs to be in English. If your notes are not in English, please summarise their content in English.
• Although we need you to show us that you know the basics, we also want to see how you challenge yourself. If you are more advanced provide evidence you have mastered the basic topics, and show us how well you can cope with the more advanced material!
• Everyone needs to do the Required Quizzes. If you have mastered the topics they are a good warm up exercise. If you are a beginner, they are great for consolidation of what you have learned and to test your understanding. Do additional problems and quizzes as a beginner to test nad consolidate your understanding of the basics! </aside>

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Three pieces of advice:

1. Note that having covered a topic once in the past doesn’t mean you have mastered it. There are always deeper levels of understanding. To become an expert you need to uncover the hidden layers, you need to go deep, you need to go beyond!
2. How to do that? Apply the thinking and the questioning of a researcher when studying/reviewing a topic. At ThinkingBeyond we call this to take a Researcher’s Point of View. Follow the guidance on the resources page to learn more about how to do that and how that looks like. Taking a Researcher’s Point of View will help you to tap into a spiral of mastery that leads you deeper into the rabbit hole!
3. We are looking for and are rewarding effort. We don’t expect you to come as an expert, but we want you to show us your effort and grit by recording your learning journey on this tracker. </aside>

Tracker

Video Log Documenting my Learning Journey

<aside> ❓ Every week record a video where you reflect on your learning and progress. (We recommend to do it on Saturdays.) This will help you to reflect on your progress, and document your independent learning for us to see. It will also help you with putting yourself “out there”. This is important for our programme, as it is highly interactive and collaborative.

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<aside> ⚙ What you need to consider for your weekly vlogs:

1. The weekly vlogs should be no more than one minute long.
2. Show your tracker at the beginning of the video
3. Face the camera when recording your video
4. Record the date and share a working link to your video recording. (We recommend you upload your video on your own YouTube channel, mark it as unlisted and paste the YouTube link in the tracker below. This way we will be able to access it. Don’t worry, no one will be able to find and watch your video without having the link!) </aside>

Important Information about you final vlog. Please read carefully!

VLOG