杰森·布伦南在其大学一年级研讨课"野心"中设计了八个创意作业项目，要求学生完成其中四个，其中至少包括一个星标项目[1]。这些项目旨在通过亲身体验帮助学生认识自我、设定边界、感受挑战[1]。
失败项目要求学生在公众场合尝试自己不擅长的活动至少30分钟[1]；不可能的一天项目则要求学生在一天内完成五个不同人提出的任意要求[1]；拒绝项目要求学生向三个人请求可能被拒绝的事情[1]；感恩项目要求学生亲自感谢三位曾帮助过自己的人[1]；只说不项目要求学生一整天对所有不想做的可选请求说"不"[1]；无意义项目要求学生花90分钟计数草叶或沙粒并录制全过程[1]；声誉项目要求学生调查自己在特定群体中的真实声誉[1]。
交易项目是这些挑战中较为特殊的一个，学生需要从价值约1美元的物品开始，通过交易最终获得最高价值物品，当前的项目纪录为360美元[1]。
Jason Brennan designed eight creative assignment projects for his first-year university seminar on "Ambition," requiring students to complete four of them with at least one being a starred project [1]. These assignments are structured to foster self-awareness, boundary-setting, and resilience through direct personal experience.
The projects span a range of challenges. The Failure Project asks students to attempt an unfamiliar activity in public for at least 30 minutes [1]. The Impossible Day requires completing five different requests from various people within a single day [1]. Students undertaking the Rejection Project must ask three people for something likely to be denied [1], while the Gratitude Project involves personally thanking three individuals who have helped them [1]. The No Project challenges students to decline all optional requests they do not want to do throughout an entire day [1]. The Meaningless Project requires students to count leaves or grains of sand for 90 minutes while recording the entire process [1]. The Reputation Project involves investigating how they are actually perceived within a particular social group [1].
Perhaps most ambitious is the Trading Project, which begins with an item worth approximately one dollar and proceeds through successive trades to acquire increasingly valuable items [1]. The current record for this project stands at $360 [1].