Keeping Your Word
Bridge the gap between intention and action. Master the mechanics of precise commitments, clean renegotiation, and the habits required to build unshakeable personal reliability.
Like Duolingo, but for Keeping Your Word. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
21 levels across 3 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Mechanics of an Explicit Promise; Friction, Execution, and Renegotiation; and Boundaries, Repair, and Reputation. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Keeping Your Word
- Social pleasantries are often logged by others as firm contractual expectations.
- Unfulfilled social promises silently drain credibility even if intended casually.
- A man of his word replaces reflexive promises with honest, warm closure.
- Noncommittal hedges act as covert escape hatches that foster unspoken resentment.
- A clear, grounded refusal protects mutual trust and personal self-respect.
- Conditional phrasing breeds chronic ambiguity about where a man truly stands.
- A mandatory 24-hour pause neutralizes the emotional urge to please people.
- Evaluating a request requires measuring true schedule capacity against obligations.
- A man of his word only accepts after verifying he can execute without compromise.
- Uncataloged verbal promises continuously occupy active working memory.
- The Zeigarnik effect causes incomplete mental loops to sap mental energy.
- Externalizing commitments into a trusted ledger restores focused clarity.
- An audit requires cataloging every neglected promise without making excuses.
- Directly contacting the party to acknowledge the failure restores mutual respect.
- Formally voiding or renegotiating terms removes active liability and closes the loop.
- A reliable commitment names a distinct recipient who is directly answered to.
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 Keeping Your Word 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 happens over time when you casually offer to hang out or help, but never actually follow through?
Get it right to open this lesson and 20 more in the app.
How to learn Keeping Your Word, step by step
Go in order. 21 short levels across 3 sections, about 42 minutes in all, five minutes a day.
- 1
The Mechanics of an Explicit Promise
- The Commitment Audit
- Designing Bulletproof Agreements
- 2
Friction, Execution, and Renegotiation
- The Protocol of Clean Renegotiation
- The Internal Word: Self-Trust and Discipline
- 3
Boundaries, Repair, and Reputation
- The Disciplined Refusal
- Repairing Damaged Trust
- Architectural Integrity
3 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Questions about Keeping Your Word
How do I learn Keeping Your Word?
Go in order: start with The Mechanics of an Explicit Promise, then Friction, Execution, and Renegotiation, then Boundaries, Repair, and Reputation. On Tomo that's 21 short levels, about 42 minutes in all, played five minutes a day. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.
Is there a Duolingo-style app for Keeping Your Word?
Yes. Tomo works like Duolingo: short daily lessons, streaks and quick quizzes. Keeping Your Word is one of its free courses, and you can type any other topic to get a course of your own.
Is the Keeping Your Word course free?
Yes. Keeping Your Word is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.
How long does it take to learn Keeping Your Word?
21 levels across 3 sections, about 42 minutes of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.
Do I need any background to start Keeping Your Word?
No. It's pitched at an intermediate level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Keeping Your Word is taught in the Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. 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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