Thinking Between the Lines
Like Duolingo, but for Thinking Between the Lines. 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.
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 Sorting Your Thoughts and Better Decisions through Pausing. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Thinking Between the Lines
- Facts are based on direct observation
- Inferences use 'maybe' language to bridge gaps in data
- Facts are verifiable and objective
- Inferences are tentative explanations for observed facts
- Interpretations of behavior are not facts
- Identifying facts as observable data points everyone can agree on
- Recognizing inferences as tentative 'maybe' bridges
- Conclusions are firm decisions or final judgments
- Conclusions signal the end of the thinking process and the start of action
- Inferences are low-certainty 'maybes'
- Conclusions are high-certainty 'definites'
- Facts are the highest certainty because they are observable
- Identifying conclusions as 'definitely' statements that drive action
- Distinguishing levels of certainty between inferences and conclusions
- Labeling a thought as an inference creates mental space for other possibilities
- Inferences keep the brain in a state of curiosity
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 Thinking Between the Lines 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.
Which of these is a fact that everyone in a room would agree on?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Thinking Between the Lines takes you
Stop jumping to conclusions and start seeing the invisible steps your brain takes. Learn to distinguish hard facts from the stories you tell yourself.
- 1
Sorting Your Thoughts
- The Three Building Blocks
- Spotting the Mental Leap
- 2
Better Decisions through Pausing
- The Power of the Tentative
- Breaking the Conclusion Trap
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Thinking Between the Lines 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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