How Your Mind Works
Like Duolingo, but for How Your Mind Works. 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.
27 levels across 4 sections, about 54 minutes end to end, roughly 11 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Understanding Your Daily Actions, How We Learn and Think, Emotions and Social Connections, and The Foundation of the Mind. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in How Your Mind Works
- Surface-level excuses mask deeper needs
- Path of Least Resistance dictates habits
- Logic as post-hoc justification
- Environmental friction vs desire
- Cues act as 'shortcuts' that bypass conscious decision-making
- Empathy requires looking past the 'what' (the behavior) to the 'why' (the unmet need)
- Surface-level excuses often mask deeper psychological needs
- The brain pairs specific sensory inputs with specific motor or emotional outputs
- Behavior is functional; it is usually an attempt to solve a problem or communicate a feeling
- Environmental friction is more powerful than desire
- Social desirability bias leads people to claim values they don't practice
- Immediate rewards (convenience) often override long-term values (health/ethics) in the moment
- Identifying the 'Value-Action Gap' in real-world scenarios
- The brain uses existing mental frameworks to interpret new data
- Focusing on one task reduces the ability to process unrelated stimuli
- Prior beliefs act as a filter that highlights supporting evidence
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 Mind Works 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.
Picture a kitchen where a bowl of fruit sits on the counter while the cookies are hidden in a high cupboard. Which choice does the 'Path of Least Resistance' suggest you'll make?
Get it right to open this lesson and 26 more in the app.
Where How Your Mind Works takes you
Discover the hidden forces that drive your behavior, shape your memories, and influence how you interact with the world every day.
- 1
Understanding Your Daily Actions
- Why We Do What We Do
- The Filter of Perception
- 2
How We Learn and Think
- The Science of Habits
- The Tricks of Memory
- Decision Making and Biases
- 3
Emotions and Social Connections
- Navigating Your Emotions
- The Power of Social Influence
- 4
The Foundation of the Mind
- The Brain's Architecture
- Stress and Resilience
4 sections · 9 units · 27 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
How Your Mind Works 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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