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The Modern Vibe Check: Living Well Now, a free psychology course on Tomo

The Modern Vibe Check: Living Well Now

Navigate the digital age without losing your mind. Learn to curate your environment, build authentic connections, and redefine success on your own terms.

Like Duolingo, but for The Modern Vibe Check: Living Well Now. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

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 Curating Your Reality and Defining Your Own Good. It starts from scratch.

12 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Vibe-Check Val, the guide who teaches the Modern Vibe Check: Living Well Now course
The Modern Vibe Check: Living Well Now
with Vibe-Check Val
12
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in The Modern Vibe Check: Living Well Now

  • Digital content acts as a mental environment that shapes your mood
  • Feeds are not neutral sources of information
  • The cumulative effect of posts determines your mental state
  • Muting is a private action that doesn't notify the other person
  • Curation tools are for managing your own energy, not for punishing others
  • You can be someone's friend while choosing not to see their digital output
  • Recognizing that a digital feed shapes one's internal state
  • Understanding that curation tools are for the user's benefit, not a social judgment
  • Algorithms prioritize content that triggers strong negative emotions to keep you clicking
  • Digital boundaries must be set before starting a task
  • Manual intervention is required to see uplifting or educational content
  • Notifications are designed to pull you into the attention economy
  • Distinguishing between algorithmic defaults and intentional curation
  • Focus is a finite resource that requires physical or digital barriers
  • Passive scrolling is a 'low-energy' consumption that leads to fatigue
  • Active creation or meaningful interaction builds a sense of accomplishment
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives The Modern Vibe Check: Living Well Now 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.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Your Digital Mental Environment

When you open a social media app, how should you view the feed you see?

Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.

Course map

Where The Modern Vibe Check: Living Well Now takes you

  1. 1

    Curating Your Reality

    • Digital Peace of Mind
    • Authentic Connection Over Performance
  2. 2

    Defining Your Own Good

    • The Art of the Soft Life
    • Intentional Consumption

2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

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