Motivation for ADHD and Bipolar
Like Duolingo, but for Motivation for ADHD and Bipolar. 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.
22 levels across 4 sections, about 44 minutes end to end, roughly 9 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Getting Started Today, Understanding Your Brain's Engine, Building Resilient Habits, and The Long Game. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Motivation for ADHD and Bipolar
- ADHD brains freeze on long tasks
- The two-minute rule lowers perceived threat
- Physical movement helps momentum
- Body doubling as a social anchor
- Body doubling provides stimulation without help
- Body doubling regulates boredom
- The two-minute rule
- Body doubling
- Large tasks trigger the 'paralysis' response in bipolar or ADHD states
- ADHD brains struggle with 'out of sight, out of mind' (object permanence for tasks)
- A micro-step must be so small it requires almost zero mental effort to agree to
- Visual cues must be placed in the direct physical path of your routine
- Applying the two-minute rule to bypass task avoidance
- Physical momentum starts with a single, tiny, non-threatening action
- Externalizing the 'reminder' reduces the mental energy needed to remember what to do next
- Understanding how body doubling provides external stimulation
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 Motivation for ADHD and Bipolar 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 is the main goal of using the 'two-minute rule' for a chore?
Get it right to open this lesson and 21 more in the app.
Where Motivation for ADHD and Bipolar takes you
Learn how to work with your brain's unique chemistry to overcome executive dysfunction and build habits that survive mood cycles.
- 1
Getting Started Today
- Lowering the Barrier to Entry
- Working With Your Current Energy
- 2
Understanding Your Brain's Engine
- The ADHD Interest-Based System
- Bipolar Cycles and Task Inertia
- 3
Building Resilient Habits
- Designing ADHD-Friendly Habits
- Buffering Against Mood Shifts
- 4
The Long Game
- Self-Compassion as a Productivity Tool
4 sections · 7 units · 22 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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