How to Learn Anything
Tackle brand-new subjects without getting overwhelmed. Learn how to crack open unfamiliar domains, build a mental framework, and follow your curiosity from zero to fluency.
Like Duolingo, but for How to Learn Anything. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
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 Entering Unfamiliar Territory and Deepening and Exploring on Your Own. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in How to Learn Anything
- Feeling incapable as a beginner usually signals a lack of shared vocabulary, not poor comprehension
- Unfamiliar fields rely on dense shorthand and specialized language that hide familiar logic
- Translating or skipping dense buzzwords reveals the underlying idea is often straightforward
- Consulting three brief, varied introductory sources surfaces what everyone in the field agrees is central
- Terms and themes that appear across multiple independent overviews mark the real foundation
- Niche arguments and rare terms can be safely ignored during the first scan
- The terms practitioners actively argue over define the field's primary tensions and boundaries
- A small set of five or six contested anchor words gives immediate context for deeper reading
- Exhaustive glossaries waste time compared to focusing on high-frequency, disputed concepts
- Working through a single miniature example or toy problem makes abstract rules tangible
- Toy problems test whether a concept makes sense without the distraction of edge cases
- Formal theory is much easier to absorb once you have one concrete scenario to map it onto
- Expecting perfect clarity on day one leads to frustration and stalling out
- Giving yourself permission to hold partial, slightly flawed mental models keeps you moving forward
- Early misunderstandings naturally correct themselves as you gain broader context across the subject
- Every field has one main metric or resource that experts constantly track and balance
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 How to Learn Anything 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.
Imagine opening a guide to a new craft and getting stuck on page one. What is usually making it feel so impossible?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where How to Learn Anything takes you
- 1
Entering Unfamiliar Territory
- Starting an Unfamiliar Subject
- Mapping How a Subject Fits Together
- 2
Deepening and Exploring on Your Own
- Testing Your Real Understanding
- Guiding Your Own Learning Path
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
How to Learn Anything is taught in the The Storyteller style: every lesson is a story. 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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Start How to Learn Anything today.
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