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.
Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android
Key ideas in Hack Your Own Brain
- A habit begins with a specific environmental or internal trigger
- Cues are often tied to specific times, locations, or preceding actions
- The reward is what reinforces the brain to repeat the loop automatically next time
- Changing a habit requires identifying the start of the loop rather than just resisting the action
- The sequence of the habit loop that transforms a choice into an automatic behavior
- Cues can be external (environment) or internal (feelings)
- Habits are often chained to other routine behaviors
- Identifying the specific cue in a real-world scenario
- Distinguishing between different types of hidden triggers
- The brain prioritizes immediate dopamine from sugar over delayed health benefits
- Evolutionary wiring favors instant energy sources over long-term planning
- Pairing a low-dopamine task with a high-dopamine reward creates an immediate incentive
- The reward must happen during or immediately after the boring task to 'hack' the brain's priority system
- The brain is wired to crave immediate feedback over distant results
- Why the brain favors immediate sugary snacks over long-term health goals
- Dopamine release is most effective when it closely follows an action
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.
Which of these is the most likely 'cue' for a daily afternoon snacking habit?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where Hack Your Own Brain takes you
Stop wondering why you do the things you do. Learn the hidden psychological shortcuts that shape your habits, your moods, and how you see the world.
- 1
Master Your Daily Habits
- The Secret Loop of Habits
- How Rewards Trick Your Brain
- Small Wins and Big Changes
- Designing Your Environment for Success
- 2
Read the People Around You
- Why We Follow the Crowd
- The Power of First Impressions
- How to Spot Hidden Biases
- The Art of Persuasion
- Why We Help (and Why We Don't)
- Building Better Connections
- 3
The Science of Your Inner World
- How Your Memory Reinvents Itself
- Where Emotions Actually Come From
- The Fight or Flight Response
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 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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