Making Memories Count
Learn how to turn your daily activities into meaningful stories and lasting growth. Discover how to seek out new adventures and reflect on the moments that shape who you are.
Like Duolingo, but for Making Memories Count. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 26 levels across 3 sections, about 52 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Start Your Adventure Today, Turn Moments into Stories, and Design Your Future Path. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Making Memories Count
- Small risks have no permanent negative consequences
- Repeated exposure to minor stress desensitizes the fear response
- Small risks involve social or physical discomfort rather than life-altering danger
- Small wins build the self-trust needed for larger decisions
- Growth starts with identifying safe discomfort
- Reflection on the safety of small risks reinforces the habit
- Understanding the 'courage muscle' metaphor for resilience
- The process of using small risks to prepare for a major life change
- Looking up or down at different planes (rooflines, pavement textures) reveals hidden patterns
- Slowing your physical pace forces the brain to process more sensory input
- Tourist-mode involves active curiosity and seeking out 'landmarks' in the mundane
- Autopilot prioritizes efficiency and destination over the journey
- Distinguishing between 'autopilot' habits and 'tourist-mode' thinking
- Adventure is a state of mind characterized by openness and novelty-seeking
- Applying specific observation techniques to break the habit of ignoring familiar surroundings
- Familiarity often breeds 'inattentional blindness' which can be consciously reversed
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 Making Memories Count 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.
What happens to your internal fear response when you regularly face minor, manageable stressors?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
How to learn Making Memories Count, step by step
Go in order. 26 short levels across 3 sections, about 52 minutes in all, five minutes a day.
- 1
Start Your Adventure Today
- Saying Yes to Small Risks
- Finding Wonder in Your Neighborhood
- The Art of Doing Things Alone
- Breaking Your Daily Routine
- 2
Turn Moments into Stories
- How to Spot a Great Memory
- Capturing the Feeling, Not Just the Photo
- Sharing Your Experiences with Others
- Learning from the Bad Days
- Keeping a Simple Memory Journal
- Why We Remember the First Time
- 3
Design Your Future Path
- Building Your Personal Bucket List
- Investing in Experiences Over Things
- How New Skills Change Your Brain
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Questions about Making Memories Count
How do I learn Making Memories Count?
Go in order: start with Start Your Adventure Today, then Turn Moments into Stories, then Design Your Future Path. On Tomo that's 26 short levels, about 52 minutes in all, played five minutes a day. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.
Is there a Duolingo-style app for Making Memories Count?
Yes. Tomo works like Duolingo: short daily lessons, streaks and quick quizzes. Making Memories Count is one of its free courses, and you can type any other topic to get a course of your own.
Is the Making Memories Count course free?
Yes. Making Memories Count is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.
How long does it take to learn Making Memories Count?
26 levels across 3 sections, about 52 minutes of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.
Do I need any background to start Making Memories Count?
No. It's pitched at a beginner level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.
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
Making Memories Count is taught in the Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. 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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