Hacking Your Brain: A User's Manual
Like Duolingo, but for Hacking Your Brain: A User's Manual. 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 4 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Immediate Upgrades, Navigating Your Thoughts, Building a Better Brain, and The Biological Engine. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Hacking Your Brain: A User's Manual
- Viewing sunlight within the first hour of waking triggers a cortisol release for alertness
- Caffeine blocks adenosine receptors rather than clearing adenosine out
- Light through a window is significantly less effective than direct outdoor light for setting the clock
- Natural cortisol levels are already high upon waking and drop after 90 minutes
- Morning light exposure determines when melatonin will be released later that night
- Delaying caffeine allows the brain to naturally clear sleep-inducing chemicals so they don't flood back in later
- The timing and mechanism of using sunlight to regulate the circadian rhythm
- The relationship between caffeine timing and adenosine buildup
- A double inhale re-inflates the air sacs in the lungs
- A long, slow exhale through the mouth signals the brain to slow the heart rate
- The brain's resistance to a task is usually highest in the first few minutes
- The technique works by offloading carbon dioxide rapidly
- Committing to just 10 minutes tricks the brain into starting by lowering the perceived 'cost' of the effort
- The specific mechanical sequence of the physiological sigh to lower heart rate
- Once the initial friction is overcome, the brain often wants to continue the task
- Applying the 10-minute rule to bypass limbic friction
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 Hacking Your Brain: A User's Manual 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 caffeine actually do to the 'sleepy chemicals' in your brain?
Get it right to open this lesson and 20 more in the app.
Where Hacking Your Brain: A User's Manual takes you
Learn how to work with your biology instead of against it. Discover practical techniques to upgrade your focus, mood, and memory by understanding the hidden mechanics of your mind.
- 1
Immediate Upgrades
- Quick Wins for Focus and Energy
- Designing Your Environment for Success
- 2
Navigating Your Thoughts
- Mastering Your Mood and Drive
- Spotting Your Brain's Shortcuts
- 3
Building a Better Brain
- Rewiring Through Neuroplasticity
- Memory Hacks for Real Life
- 4
The Biological Engine
- The Evolutionary Glitch
4 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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Hacking Your Brain: A User's Manual is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. 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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