Stay Calm in the Chaos
Like Duolingo, but for Stay Calm in the Chaos. 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.
Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android
Key ideas in Stay Calm in the Chaos
- Internal control is limited to our own thoughts and actions
- Focusing on the process (preparation) is within our control
- External outcomes and others' reactions are outside our circle of control
- Focusing on the result (getting the job) creates anxiety because it is not fully up to us
- The ability to categorize common stressors into internal vs external domains
- Applying the circle of control to a real-world stressful scenario
- Virtue and effort are their own rewards regardless of the final result
- External factors can always interfere with our goals
- The 'gap' is a moment of pause used to observe an impulse without immediately acting on it
- Facts are objective descriptions of reality that everyone can agree on
- Automatic emotional reactions can be suspended through deliberate breathing or mental labeling
- Value judgments are the 'labels' or stories we add to facts that trigger distress
- External events are morally neutral and cannot 'force' an emotion
- The 'gap' between event and response
- Distress is caused by the internal 'story' or assent given to an impression
- Distinguishing between objective facts and subjective value judgments
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 Stay Calm in the Chaos 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.
If you are preparing for a difficult task, which of these is entirely within your own control?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where Stay Calm in the Chaos takes you
Learn how to stop worrying about things you can't control and find peace in your daily life. This course gives you the practical tools ancient thinkers used to build mental toughness and happiness.
- 1
Handle Your Daily Stress
- The Circle of Control
- How to Stop Overreacting
- Turning Obstacles into Wins
- Finding Peace in a Busy World
- 2
Think Like a Stoic
- Preparing for the Worst Case
- Watching Your Own Thoughts
- The Power of Saying No
- Living with Purpose Every Day
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Valuing Time Over Money
- 3
The Roots of Resilience
- The Four Main Virtues
- Lessons from a Slave and an Emperor
- Living in Harmony with Nature
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Stay Calm in the Chaos 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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