Hack Your Own Brain
Like Duolingo, but for Hack Your Own Brain. 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.
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Key ideas in Hack Your Own Brain
- The prefrontal cortex handles initial conscious choices
- The basal ganglia stores and executes established routines
- Repetition triggers the shift from conscious to automatic control
- The brain automates tasks to conserve metabolic energy
- Offloading routines frees up the prefrontal cortex
- The shift from prefrontal cortex to basal ganglia
- Old habit loops remain physically stored in the brain even if dormant
- The transition from conscious effort to automatic habit
- Breaking a habit requires overriding an existing pathway, not deleting it
- The energy-saving purpose of the basal ganglia
- Dopamine drives anticipation not liking
- Dopamine loops and unsatisfying payoffs
- Unpredictable rewards and the itch
- Sensory triggers and seeking
- Removing the physical cue is more effective than resisting it once the dopamine loop starts
- Adding steps between the urge and the action (friction) weakens the craving's power
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Hack Your Own Brain 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.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When you decide to start a brand-new morning routine, which brain region is primarily responsible for that first conscious choice?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where Hack Your Own Brain takes you
Stop fighting your biology and start working with it. Learn how your brain builds habits, handles stress, and creates the world you see every day.
- 1
Master Your Daily Habits
- How your brain learns a routine
- The dopamine trap and how to avoid it
- Rewiring your brain for better focus
- Why your brain loves to procrastinate
- 2
Read Your Own Emotions
- What happens during a 'brain hijack'
- The science of staying calm under pressure
- How sleep cleans your thoughts
- Why your gut is actually a second brain
- The power of social connection
- How exercise changes your mood
- 3
The Engine Under the Hood
- Electricity: how neurons talk to each other
- Chemicals: the messengers in your blood
- Neuroplasticity: the brain's ability to change
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Hack Your Own Brain 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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