Fellowship · Ambassador Video Contribution

Show us where you think

Thinking About Thinking is a community of people interested in the mathematics of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and the nature of thought. We are asking our ambassadors for a short video, filmed in a place that has actually shaped how you think. A campus. A library. A coastline. A café. A quiet room. The place is the point.

What to film

Length 60 to 90 seconds.
Format vertical 9:16 preferred. Good natural light, clear audio. Filming on your phone is absolutely fine.
Structure introduce yourself, share where you are, answer three of the interview questions below and finish with: “This is why this place inspires my thinking.”

Choose three questions to answer

Browse the prompts below and pick the three that resonate. You can paraphrase them the questions are a starting point, not a script.

01 · Origins and formation

Where did you grow up and what was your relationship with learning as a child?
Was there a moment, teacher, or experience that made you curious about how the world works?
What did you think you were going to become when you were younger?
What kind of questions obsessed you before you knew there were academic names for them?
Outside of study, what shaped you most growing up? (music, sport, books, online communities, etc.)

02 · What they study and how they think

What are you currently studying and what drew you to it?
Which part of your field do you find genuinely difficult not just challenging, but conceptually hard?
What problem or idea are you most interested in right now?
Is there a theory, paper, or concept that changed how you see your discipline?
How do you usually approach something you don't understand yet?
Do you lean more theoretical or applied and why?
What do people outside your field usually misunderstand about it?

03 · Work, research and building

Are you working on any research, projects, or experiments at the moment?
What part of that work excites you most?
What's a problem you've tried to solve that didn't work and what did it teach you?
Do you prefer working alone or collaboratively and in what context?
If you had more time or resources, what would you want to explore next?

04 · Thinking about thinking

What does “thinking well” mean to you?
Where do you think people most often go wrong in how they think?
How do you personally deal with uncertainty or not knowing?
Do you think intelligence is more about speed, depth, creativity, or something else?
Has studying your field changed how you understand yourself?

05 · Technology, AI and the future

How do you think AI or computational tools are changing your field?
What excites you most about where science and technology are heading?
What worries you, intellectually or ethically, about the next decade?
What skills or ways of thinking do you think will matter most in the future?
If you could shape one direction of research or innovation, what would it be?

06 · Identity, values and ambition

What kind of person do you hope your work allows you to be?
What values guide how you choose what to work on?
Do you feel pressure to specialise early, or to keep options open?
What does success look like to you right now and do you think that will change?
Who do you learn the most from, formally or informally?

07 · Closing questions

What question do you think more people should be asking?
What's something you're still unsure about and comfortable admitting you don't know?
What does being part of this community mean to you?
If you could give one piece of advice to a student just starting out, what would it be?
Finish this sentence: “The future of thinking depends on…”