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Decoding the Unspoken, a free psychology course on Tomo

Decoding the Unspoken

Like Duolingo, but for Decoding the Unspoken. 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.

A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Social Detective's Toolkit and Advanced Decoding. It starts from scratch.

12 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Pip the Poodle, the guide who teaches the Decoding the Unspoken course
Decoding the Unspoken
with Pip the Poodle
12
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Decoding the Unspoken

  • A baseline is the set of behaviors a person exhibits when they are comfortable
  • Baselines must be established when the person feels zero pressure or threat
  • Individual quirks like fidgeting can be personality traits rather than signs of stress
  • Casual small talk about neutral topics reveals natural posture and speech patterns
  • Comparison to 'normal' is the only way to identify a meaningful change
  • High-stakes environments mask a person's natural habits with universal stress responses
  • The necessity of establishing a baseline before interpreting behavior
  • Identifying the best conditions to observe a natural baseline
  • The 'break' from the baseline is the primary signal for the reader
  • Single gestures are often 'noise' unless they represent a change in the established pattern
  • Consistency is the baseline; inconsistency is the message
  • Physical discomfort from the environment can cause 'closed' body language
  • Context dictates whether a gesture is a reaction to you or the room
  • A hot spot occurs specifically when the topic of conversation shifts
  • Accounting for environmental factors that mimic stress
  • The timing of the behavioral change must link directly to a specific question or statement
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 Decoding the Unspoken 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.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

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

Finding the Normal

When is the best time to observe someone's natural, honest habits?

Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.

Course map

Where Decoding the Unspoken takes you

Learn to read the hidden signals people send every day. This course turns you into a social detective, focusing on the physical clues that reveal what people are actually thinking.

  1. 1

    The Social Detective's Toolkit

    • Establishing the Baseline
    • Spotting Comfort and Discomfort
  2. 2

    Advanced Decoding

    • The Truth is in the Feet
    • Connecting the Clues

2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Bestie

Decoding the Unspoken is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. 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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