Master Your Mind
Like Duolingo, but for Master Your Mind. 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 Master Your Mind
- Dopamine peaks during the anticipation of a reward
- Dopamine responds to 'prediction errors' or surprises
- The actual consumption (pleasure) is mediated by other chemicals like opioids
- Fully predictable rewards stop triggering dopamine spikes
- Dopamine vs Opioids
- Predictability and Baseline
- Cues trigger dopamine before the action is taken
- Positive prediction error increases dopamine
- The effect of 100% predictability on dopamine release
- The dopamine spike provides the motivation to perform the action
- Negative prediction error suppresses dopamine
- The sequence of the dopamine loop from cue to action
- How different prediction outcomes affect dopamine levels
- Cues can be external or internal
- Cues are predictors of reward
- The sequence of the dopamine loop
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 Master Your Mind 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 does a seasoned chocolate lover experience their largest dopamine spike?
Get it right to open this lesson and 174 more in the app.
Where Master Your Mind takes you
Unlock the secrets of your brain to change your habits, manage stress, and learn faster. Discover how your gray matter reshapes itself every time you think, feel, or act.
- 1
Hack Your Habits
- The Dopamine Reward Loop
- How Your Brain Builds Shortcuts
- Breaking Bad Patterns
- Rewiring for Better Choices
- 2
Tame Your Stress Response
- When the Amygdala Takes Control
- The Fight-or-Flight Survival Switch
- Lowering Your Cortisol Levels
- Calming the Brain in Real Time
- Building Emotional Resilience
- 3
Boost Your Learning Power
- The Magic of Neuroplasticity
- Growing New Brain Cells
- Why Forgetting is Necessary
- 4
Understand Your Social Brain
- How Mirror Neurons Help Us Connect
- Reading Other People's Intentions
- The Science of Empathy
- Why We Mimic Those Around Us
- Social Pain vs. Physical Pain
- The Brain's Trust Circuit
- 5
Master Your Focus
- The Brain's Idle Mode
- Switching Between Doing and Dreaming
- The Cost of Multitasking
- Training Your Attention Span
- 6
Debunking Brain Myths
- The Truth About Left and Right Brains
- How the Two Halves Actually Talk
- Do We Really Only Use Ten Percent?
- Male vs. Female Brain Realities
- The Plasticity of Aging
- 7
The Maintenance Department
- Cleaning the Brain During Sleep
- How Food Affects Your Mood
- Exercise and Brain Growth
- 8
The Deep Architecture
- How Neurons Talk to Each Other
- The Chemistry of the Synapse
- Mapping the Brain's Major Zones
- The Evolution of the Human Mind
- The Future of Brain-Machine Links
8 sections · 35 units · 175 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Master Your Mind is taught in the 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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