How Your Brain Runs Your Life
Like Duolingo, but for How Your Brain Runs Your Life. 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 How Your Brain Runs Your Life
- The amygdala receives sensory input faster than the thinking cortex
- An 'amygdala hijack' prioritizes survival over complex reasoning
- The amygdala triggers an immediate survival response to potential threats
- High emotional arousal impairs the prefrontal cortex's function
- The impact of the amygdala on the prefrontal cortex during stress
- The thalamus acts as a relay station for incoming data
- The 'low road' bypasses the cortex for a faster response
- The sequence of a survival response versus a thoughtful response
- Habits form through consistent repetition of the same sequence
- The brain automates routines that provide a predictable outcome or reward
- The basal ganglia operates below the level of conscious thought
- Conscious decision-making happens in a different part of the brain than habit storage
- A habit starts with a specific environmental trigger
- The ultimate goal of the habit loop is to reduce the cognitive load on the brain
- How the brain identifies which behaviors to automate based on repetition and reward
- The sequence of the habit loop that leads to mental energy conservation
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 Your Brain Runs Your Life 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 experience an 'amygdala hijack' during a stressful moment, what does your brain prioritize?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where How Your Brain Runs Your Life takes you
Ever wonder why you feel fear, remember a song, or can catch a ball without thinking? Discover the physical command center inside your head and how it shapes every moment of your day.
- 1
Mastering Your Daily Reactions
- The Panic Button: How You Handle Stress
- The Habit Loop: Why You Do Things on Autopilot
- Balance and Movement: How You Stay Upright
- The Reward Center: Why We Love Treats
- 2
Judging and Sensing the World
- Making Sense of What You See
- How Your Brain Hears a Conversation
- The Filter: Deciding What to Pay Attention To
- Storing Memories: Where Your Childhood Lives
- The Personality Hub: Making Big Decisions
- Feeling for Others: The Roots of Empathy
- 3
The Machinery Under the Hood
- The Left and Right Side Myth
- How Brain Cells Talk to Each Other
- The Protective Shell and Fluid Shield
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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