Just Curious · Experiments — Curiosity, taken seriously.

The idea

Things on your list. Taken seriously.

Most of us have a running list of things we've always wanted to try and never do. Not because we can't — because there's no scaffolding. No teacher, no time set aside, no group to show up for, no reason it has to happen this month instead of someday.

Experiments is the scaffolding. We pick a hard thing worth getting good at, find a teacher we'd want ourselves, and put a small group through a real attempt at it — not a taster, not a workshop. Four to five weekends, start to finish, ending in a real test.

The list keeps growing, and so can you. Start with one thing on a trial. If you love it, you continue — deeper into the same skill, or on to the next thing you're curious about. We're not promising you'll be great. We're promising you'll be reasonably good — meaning you can actually do the thing.

How it works

Decompose. Select. Sequence. Stakes.

However different the activities look, every one is built the same way — a method for getting good at hard things fast, sharpened over the pilot.

Decompose

Break the skill into its real parts. A vault is four movements, not one. Most of getting good is knowing what the pieces actually are.

Select

Pick the few pieces that carry the most weight. You don't learn everything — you learn the minimum that makes you able to do the thing.

Sequence

Order it so each session builds on the last. The right order is most of the speed. The wrong order is most of the frustration.

Stakes

Set a real test, on a real day, on camera. Nothing focuses the work like knowing you'll have to do it for the group at the end.

Cohort 01 · The activities

Things worth getting good at.

We've run two so far — parkour and rifle shooting. Country swing is up next, with more on the list. Tap any one to see what it's actually like, in our own photos and clips.

What it takes

Four to five weekends. Zero to reasonably good.

Each activity runs across four to five weekends — about twelve to fifteen hours in total. It's built for working professionals: it happens on weekends, so it actually fits your life. No homework you'll skip, no theory for its own sake. You learn it by doing it, with people doing it next to you, and it ends with a filmed test.

“On the last day you do the thing on camera. Pass or fail, it's filmed.”

The first weekend

The teacher decomposes the skill and you start on the pieces that matter. Awkward, fast, hands-on from the first hour.

The middle weekends

You drill the few things that carry the most weight, in the right order, until they stop feeling like thinking and start feeling like doing.

The test

A real, filmed test in front of the cohort. Most people get reasonably good. A few surprise themselves. Everyone has it on tape.

The founder pilot · JCE-00.5

This is what we did first.

Before opening a public cohort, a few of us ran the method on ourselves — parkour and rifle shooting, filmed end to end. The short film is being cut now.

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Coming soon — the JCE-00.5 short film

The people.

A cohort is half the experiment. These are the ones who've done it so far.

This isn't for everyone. That's the point.

Cohort 01 is small and we curate it carefully — the group is as important as the activities. You start with one activity on a trial. If it's a fit, you continue — into the same skill, or the next thing on your list.

Send an application and we'll read it personally. Selected applicants are invited to a trial before committing to more.

Apply for Cohort 01 →

Have a question first? Write to hello@just-curious.in.

Who runs this

Built by Jaiveer.

Run by Jaiveer Shekhawat, who tends to question the way things are usually done — and whether you can get genuinely good at a hard thing in a fraction of the time everyone assumes it takes. Experiments is that question aimed at himself as much as anyone: take a skill, strip it to what matters, and push past the limits we quietly set on ourselves.

He picks the teachers and reads every application himself.

The family

Part of Just Curious.

Experiments is the doing-things arm of Just Curious — the same brand behind the podcast, where two friends in Mumbai go deep on people, ideas, and businesses worth a closer look.

The podcast → @jc.experiments