Course curriculum

    1. You’re in! First step to helping others

    2. Next step: getting connected

    3. Getting the ball rolling on helping others

    4. The tl;dr on interacting with other Leaf participants

    5. Weekly structure

    6. Advice on engaging with our content

    7. Intro call recording

    1. Ohno, not again!

    2. Five Whys

    3. Keep digging into “why”

    4. The most obvious “why” question you’ve never asked

    5. Hamming yourself

    6. What’s good, homie?

    7. What’s best?

    8. What do you want from a degree?

    9. What makes careers fulfilling?

    10. Quiz: What makes careers fulfilling?

    11. Following your passion

    12. Taking advice too far

    13. Can money buy happiness? A review of new data

    14. How much will you earn?

    15. How to achieve 100s of times more by considering who to help

    16. Who to help in history

    17. How much is a life worth?

    18. The cost to save a life

    19. A simple trick to save 10x more lives

    20. Forgotten future generations

    21. Forgotten future generations (Activity)

    22. Aiming for a lasting legacy

    23. Neglected nonhumans

    24. Why worry about nonhumans?

    25. Why worry about nonhumans? (Activity)

    26. Further exploration

    1. Realising your potential

    2. SMART goals for smart people

    3. What is SMART?

    4. Ambitious but realistic uni choices

    5. Ambitious but realistic career choices

    6. Saving 10 lives by age 20

    7. Can’t you save more lives with a medical degree?

    8. Can’t you save more lives with a medical degree? (Activity)

    9. The missing multipliers

    10. A framework for prioritising pressing problems

    11. Framework quiz

    12. Putting the framework into practice

    13. What did you think?

    14. To global health and beyond!

    15. Downrating, not deleting, degree options

    16. Considering relevant degrees

    17. Considering relevant degrees (Survey)

    18. Making your degree research impactful

    19. Making your degree research impactful (Survey)

    20. Keep digging

    21. Further exploration

    1. Helping others before you even graduate

    2. Should you actually do that?

    3. Slow and steady wins the race

    4. How to achieve more (later)

    5. Top career capital from top unis

    6. Specialist vs transferable career capital

    7. Specialist vs transferable career capital (Activity)

    8. Choosing between more or less specialised degrees

    9. Rules of thumb for picking degrees with the best career capital

    10. More fundamental is more flexible

    11. Start STEM-y and broaden later

    12. Start STEM-y and broaden later (Activity)

    13. Avoid specialisation if you’re not ready

    14. Picking what to leave to later life learning

    15. Picking what to leave to later life learning (Activity)

    16. Self-discovery

    17. Risking the right amount

    18. Further exploration

    1. Tunnel vision to funnel vision (Week 4. How to rank and investigate your options)

    2. Tunnel vision to funnel vision (Activity)

    3. Creativity is a numbers game

    4. Courses that cover the fundamentals

    5. Don’t miss out on niche options

    6. Phone a friend

    7. Build ‘em up and knock ‘em down

    8. Deeper consideration of top options

    9. Filling out the list with specific unis

    10. Using quick experiments to avoid degrees you’ll regret

    11. Running LOTS of experiments

    12. Taking entry requirements seriously but not literally

    13. Agency, and taking advice seriously but not literally

    14. Scoring your options, including backups

    15. Can we see?

    16. Further exploration

    1. Be a student, scout, and scientist

    2. Making progress while keeping options open

    3. Marking milestones to check you’re on track

    4. Planning to give admissions tutors what they want

    5. Finalising a plan

    6. Who will hold you to account?

    7. Why did the patient die? How can you prevent it happening?

    8. Top tips for landing your top choice

    9. Getting the personal statement basics down

    10. Getting started on your personal statement

    11. Making the most of what Leaf offers

    12. Making the most of this week’s discussion call

    13. Congratulations!

    14. Keep on funnelin’

    15. Digging into how to help beyond degrees

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  • 2 hours of video content

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