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How Your Brain Makes You, You

Like Duolingo, but for How Your Brain Makes You, You. 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.

26 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Bernie the Brainy Bear
How Your Brain Makes You, You
with Bernie the Brainy Bear
26
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
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 turns How Your Brain Makes You, You into a game you actually finish. Levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that make it stick. Five minutes a day.

What you'll learn

Where How Your Brain Makes You, You takes you

Ever wonder why you remember some things but forget others, or why your mood changes so fast? Discover how the physical parts of your brain create your thoughts, feelings, and personality.

  1. 1

    The Brain's Control Center

    • The Map Inside Your Head
    • How Brain Cells Talk to Each Other
    • Left Brain vs Right Brain Myths
    • What Happens When the Brain Gets Hurt
  2. 2

    The Science of Your Feelings

    • Where Emotions Come From
    • The Chemistry of Happiness
    • Why We Feel Fear and Stress
    • How the Brain Makes Decisions
    • The Power of Habits
    • How Sleep Fixes Your Brain
  3. 3

    Memory and Learning

    • How We Store New Information
    • Why Some Memories Fade
    • Training Your Brain to Focus

3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

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

Mapping the Cortical Neighborhoods

If you were looking at a map of the human brain, how many primary 'territories' or lobes would you see on each side?

Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Bestie

How Your Brain Makes You, You 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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