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Mapping Who You Are, a free psychology course on Tomo

Mapping Who You Are

Stop waiting for an epiphany and start reading your own real-world signals. Learn practical ways to tune out inherited expectations, pinpoint what gives you genuine energy, and test your values through daily action.

Like Duolingo, but for Mapping Who You Are. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

A short one: 10 levels across 2 sections, about 20 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Decoding Your Internal Signals and Living Into Your Authentic Patterns. It starts from scratch.

10 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Barnaby the Bear, the guide who teaches the Mapping Who You Are course
Mapping Who You Are
with Barnaby the Bear
10
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Mapping Who You Are

  • A temporary bad mood or frustration does not mean a task goes against your true self
  • Sustained vitality versus soul-draining exhaustion shows whether an activity genuinely feeds your core nature
  • Mood reflects surface circumstances, while energy levels reflect deep alignment
  • Spontaneous absorption happens before self-doubt or social expectations can edit what you care about
  • Fleeting curiosity serves as an instinctive compass pointing directly to innate affinities
  • Resentment points to a boundary you wish you had held or a personal desire you secretly want to claim
  • Envy and annoyance at others usually mask permission you refuse to give yourself
  • A daily energy log highlights the contrast between what you pretend to enjoy and what actually recharges you
  • Activities that sound worthy or socially impressive often silently drain your authentic energy
  • Simple, unglamorous habits are often the ones that truly feed your baseline self
  • Language based on 'should', 'supposed to', or 'ought to' signals imported social or family standards
  • Authentic self-discovery speaks in curiosity, attraction, and genuine desire rather than moralized obligation
  • Borrowed scripts often feel like debts you have to pay off to earn approval
  • Prestige milestones provide only a fleeting dopamine hit followed by emotional flatness (the arrival fallacy)
  • External status cannot resolve internal identity questions because you didn't actually enjoy the process
  • Genuine fulfillment requires resonance with the day-to-day reality, not just the trophy at the end
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 gives Mapping Who You Are 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.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

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

Listening to Your Energy Signals

You finish two tough tasks. How can you tell which one actually fits your core nature?

Get it right to open this lesson and 9 more in the app.

Course map

Where Mapping Who You Are takes you

  1. 1

    Decoding Your Internal Signals

    • Auditing Your Daily Energy
    • Separating Your Voice from Borrowed Scripts
  2. 2

    Living Into Your Authentic Patterns

    • Pinpointing Values Through Real Trade-Offs
    • Testing Identity Through Micro-Experiments

2 sections · 4 units · 10 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

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The Bestie

Mapping Who You Are 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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