Rewiring Your Brain for Performance
Like Duolingo, but for Rewiring Your Brain for Performance. 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.
21 levels across 3 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Directing Your Attention, The Mechanics of Learning, and Optimizing the Biological Environment. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Rewiring Your Brain for Performance
- Top-down attention is goal-driven and originates in the prefrontal cortex
- Bottom-up attention is an involuntary response to external stimuli like noise
- Attention residue means part of your brain stays stuck on the previous task
- Cognitive performance can be degraded for up to 20 minutes after a switch
- The ability to distinguish between goal-driven focus and stimulus-driven distraction
- Understanding the cost of frequent task-switching on mental clarity
- The specific mechanics of the physiological sigh to lower arousal
- Applying environmental priming to lower the barrier for difficult tasks
- Wearing a hood or blinkers narrows the visual field to the task at hand
- Clearing everything off your desk except the current project reduces sensory noise
- Using a 'single-tasking' app that hides the taskbar limits digital distractions
- Identifying methods to physically limit the attentional field
- Boredom signals that your current skill level has outpaced the task difficulty
- The struggle phase loads the brain with cortisol and norepinephrine to signal importance
- Top-down vs bottom-up attention
- Flow requires a 'just-manageable' challenge roughly 4% beyond your current ability
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 Rewiring Your Brain for Performance 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 you decide to ignore a buzzing phone to finish a book, which brain region is driving that goal-oriented focus?
Get it right to open this lesson and 20 more in the app.
Where Rewiring Your Brain for Performance takes you
Move beyond basic habit tips to master the biological mechanisms of neuroplasticity. Learn to direct your brain's physical structure to improve focus, accelerate learning, and build cognitive resilience.
- 1
Directing Your Attention
- Reclaiming the Focus Circuit
- Entering and Sustaining Flow
- 2
The Mechanics of Learning
- Triggering Neuroplasticity
- Designing Resilient Habits
- 3
Optimizing the Biological Environment
- Fueling the Cognitive Engine
- Managing Stress and Cortisol
- Building Long-Term Cognitive Reserve
3 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Rewiring Your Brain for Performance 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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