How Your Brain Tricks You
Like Duolingo, but for How Your Brain Tricks 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.
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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 turns How Your Brain Tricks You into a game you actually finish. Levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that make it stick. Five minutes a day.
Where How Your Brain Tricks You takes you
Discover why your mind doesn't always see the truth. Learn the secrets behind optical illusions, false memories, and the mental shortcuts that lead us astray.
- 1
Eyes and Lies
- Why We See Things That Aren't There
- How Colors Change Based on Their Neighbors
- The Way Your Brain Fills in the Blanks
- Moving Pictures That Are Actually Still
- 2
The Memory Trap
- Why You Forget Where You Put Your Keys
- How We Create Fake Memories
- The Problem with Eyewitness Stories
- Why Old Memories Feel More Vivid
- How Feelings Change What We Remember
- The Truth About Deja Vu
- 3
Mental Shortcuts
- Why We Only Notice What We Already Believe
- The Power of First Impressions
- Why We Fear the Wrong Things
- 4
Social Sneakiness
- Following the Crowd Without Thinking
- Why We Think We Are Better Than Average
- The Halo Effect and Pretty Faces
- Blaming People Instead of Situations
- How Expectations Change Your Reality
4 sections · 18 units · 54 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Why does your brain sometimes act like a fast superhero instead of waiting to see every tiny thing?
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