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Closing the Integrity Gap

Like Duolingo, but for Closing the Integrity Gap. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

9 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

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Closing the Integrity Gap
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9
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Closing the Integrity Gap

  • Raise a palm slightly to signal 'one moment' while continuing your sentence
  • A Hard Start means beginning the main activity at the exact agreed-upon time
  • Maintain eye contact and a steady tone to finish the thought before yielding
  • Starting on time rewards those who arrived promptly and sets a group standard
  • Lower the hand immediately after finishing to invite the interrupter to speak
  • Waiting for latecomers reinforces the habit of showing up late to future events
  • Applying the 'Hold and Finish' technique to maintain conversational flow during an interruption
  • Applying the 'Hard Start' rule to prevent latecomers from controlling the schedule
  • Acknowledge arrival without stopping
  • Time Optimists cognitive bias
  • Hold and Finish technique
  • Direct latecomer to a task
  • Disrespectful Actors lack empathy
  • Hard Start rule
  • Identifying root cause for response
  • Communicate the five-minute cutoff clearly before the meeting or event occurs
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Closing the Integrity Gap the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Reclaiming Your Time

If you agree to start a dinner at 7:00 PM, what does a 'Hard Start' require you to do?

Get it right to open this lesson and 8 more in the app.

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Where Closing the Integrity Gap takes you

Learn to navigate relationships where people's words of affection don't match their chronic lateness or interruptions. Master the art of setting time-based boundaries while maintaining social grace.

  1. 1

    Tactical Responses to Time-Wasting

    • Managing the Moment of Friction
    • Autonomy Through Separate Logistics
  2. 2

    Addressing the Integrity Gap

    • Decoding Actions vs. Intentions

2 sections · 3 units · 9 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Professor

Closing the Integrity Gap is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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