The Hidden Drivers of Your Behavior
Like Duolingo, but for The Hidden Drivers of Your Behavior. 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 The Hidden Drivers of Your Behavior
- Distinguishing between automatic and effortful mental processes
- Predicting when the autopilot system is likely to make an error
- The brain is a 'cognitive miser' and tries to conserve energy
- Logic mode only activates when it feels it is absolutely necessary
- We often accept the first easy answer that comes to mind
- The autopilot makes the choice based on feeling or desire
- The logical system acts as a 'press secretary' to justify the choice to others
- Rationalization happens after the decision is already made
- Recognizing post-hoc rationalization of emotional choices
- Understanding the 'lazy' nature of the logical system
- Pausing creates the space needed to stop the autopilot's momentum
- Self-questioning is the 'on switch' for logic mode
- Logic mode requires a deliberate prompt to take over from a reaction
- The process of manually overriding a reactive impulse
- Confirmation bias and reading habits
- Automatic vs effortful processes
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 The Hidden Drivers of Your Behavior 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 does your brain's autopilot use to make decisions at high speed?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where The Hidden Drivers of Your Behavior takes you
Ever wonder why you make the same mistakes or feel certain ways without knowing why? Discover the psychological shortcuts and social forces that shape your daily life.
- 1
The Shortcuts Your Brain Takes
- Your Two Thinking Systems
- The Filters That Distort Reality
- 2
The Power of Others and Habits
- How Other People Influence You
- The Mechanics of Habit and Reward
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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