Psychology of Everyday Life
Like Duolingo, but for Psychology of Everyday Life. 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.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Brain on Autopilot and The Invisible Social Web. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Psychology of Everyday Life
- Passing through physical boundaries like doorways signals the brain that one context has ended and a new one has begun
- The brain purges short-term working memories tied to the previous room to make space for the new environment
- Retracing your steps back into the original room often restores the forgotten thought by restoring context
- The spotlight effect makes us feel like an imaginary spotlight is constantly illuminating our blunders and appearance
- Other people are largely consumed by their own internal thoughts and concerns, missing most details of our appearance
- Repetitive daily tasks get handed off to automatic motor memory so conscious attention is freed up
- Because automatic actions require almost no conscious thought, your brain does not encode a distinct episodic memory for each execution
- To remember completing a routine chore, you must deliberately disrupt the autopilot by saying it aloud or pausing mindfully
- Intense visual focus on one task causes your brain to filter out fully visible, unexpected stimuli right in front of you
- Looking directly at an object does not guarantee conscious awareness if attention is tied up elsewhere
- Inattentional blindness is caused by attention bottlenecks, not poor eyesight or visual fatigue
- Memory does not calculate a mathematical average of total time spent happy versus unhappy
- The brain disproportionately remembers an entire experience by its single most intense emotional moment (the peak)
- The final moments of an event (the end) disproportionately dictate the lasting impression left in memory
- The first number you see establishes an arbitrary mental benchmark (an anchor)
- Comparing subsequent prices against a high anchor makes them feel reasonable or cheap by comparison
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 Psychology of Everyday Life 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.
You walk from the kitchen into your bedroom and freeze. Why does stepping through the doorway make you forget what you wanted?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Psychology of Everyday Life takes you
Discover the hidden psychological quirks behind your daily routines, from why you walk into a room and forget what you wanted to why you keep checking your phone. Unpack relatable mental shortcuts and learn practical ways to outsmart your own brain.
- 1
The Brain on Autopilot
- Why Your Brain Glitches in Daily Life
- Mental Traps in How You Choose and Spend
- 2
The Invisible Social Web
- How Other People Quietly Steer You
- Why Habits Stick and Intentions Vanish
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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