The Psychology of Everyday Life
Discover why you think, feel, and act the way you do. This course turns the lens on your own mind to reveal the hidden patterns that drive your daily decisions and social interactions.
Like Duolingo, but for The Psychology of Everyday Life. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
24 levels across 3 sections, about 48 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Noticing Your Mind at Work, Navigating the Social World, and The Mechanics of the Self. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in The Psychology of Everyday Life
- The brain's survival systems trigger physical reactions faster than conscious thought
- Deliberate decision-making is metabolically expensive for the brain
- Environmental cues like shadows or loud noises activate 'fight or flight' automatically
- Conscious choice is often bypassed in favor of immediate safety responses
- The brain defaults to repetitive patterns to conserve resources
- Autopilot reactions are a biological efficiency strategy
- Evolutionary wiring for immediate gratification
- Impulses as physical sensations
- Survival systems vs conscious thought
- Future benefits are abstract
- Noticing the spark provides a window
- Brain autopilot and energy saving
- Ancient biological signals
- Control starts with body awareness
- Biological preference for immediate rewards
- Sequence of impulse control
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 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.
Why does your brain sometimes feel tired after you spend a long time making big, careful decisions?
Get it right to open this lesson and 23 more in the app.
Where The Psychology of Everyday Life takes you
- 1
Noticing Your Mind at Work
- Why We Do What We Do
- The Shortcuts Your Brain Takes
- 2
Navigating the Social World
- The Hidden Forces of Influence
- How Habits Actually Form
- Understanding Your Emotions
- 3
The Mechanics of the Self
- The Truth About Memory
- What Makes You 'You'
- The Science of Motivation
3 sections · 8 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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