<aside> 🔑 The Focus process is designed to help you achieve a depth of expertise in specific topic areas.

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Purpose of Focus:

At Nexteen, we've developed a new method to accelerate your understanding of topics. Rather than read and watch videos, which is what you did in Explore, you will build and research during your Focus - it's much more hands-on. You will also develop content around your research and projects. The more work you put in, the more knowledge and quality content you will get out.

Core Principles:

The core principles around a Focus are:

• Structurally unstructured💭 - The Focus process provides guidance as you're learning, but also the flexibility to choose what you want to work on. As a result, you'll be able to follow your interest areas, learn to think for yourself, and be forced to train your 'figure it out skills (especially when working on a project that nobody else has done).
• The project-focused 🎯- By working on projects you'll have tangible results that can demonstrate what you're capable of, develop a deeper understanding of your Focus topic, and help you develop important skills that people in the industry use.
• Doing and teaching are the best ways to learn💡 - Through the Focus process you'll be doing both.
• Create content to show your work✍️ - There are multiple benefits of creating content that often gets overlooked. Through creating content, you'll need to explain your projects to others, and as a result, internalize the learnings at a deeper level. You will also improve important skills, mainly verbal and written communication, video creation, storyboarding, and personal branding.
• Effective 💡 - The outcomes of a focus are having a depth of expertise in a topic area, developing a strong portfolio that can unlock opportunities for you, internalizing the learnings through creating content, and developing your communication skills by writing articles, making videos, and building webpages to showcase your projects.

<aside> 🔑 Completing a Focus is not a race. Put in the effort, get results, and remember to build high-quality content - have high standards for your focus.

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Purpose of Explore🧠 :

The purpose of Explore is to help you:

1. Identify emerging areas that you could be interested in pursuing your Focus.

2. Gain a better understanding of the world by exposing you to a breadth of knowledge.

3. Learn about how we’re using emerging technologies and sciences to solve big problems.

→ Explores are designed to be high level. You can't expect to have a deep understanding of something just by watching videos and reading articles.

→ Explores should help you identify your Focus area. You should choose a Focus topic that you want to go deeper into, build things, and meet experts in that industry.

Expectations ✔️:

During your Focus, you will complete objectives. It should be challenging and take between 2-5 months (depending on how much time you commit each day).