Paths / Psychology
The Body and the Mind.
The way to learn something properly. On the schedule you actually have. About what you actually want to understand.
A 7-day path. Eighteen minutes a day.
The half the cognitive frameworks leave out.
Most of modern psychology, until recently, treated the mind as if it were largely separate from the body. Three writers in the last decade have done more than any others to bring the body back into the picture for general readers. Bessel van der Kolk on how trauma lives in the body. Matthew Walker on sleep as the foundational physiological process underlying nearly everything else. Lori Gottlieb on what a working therapist actually sees, day after day. Seven days of longer-than-usual lessons on the embodied half of psychological life — the half the cognitive frameworks of the prior paths leave out.
Bringing the body back.
Day 1 names the gap. Why modern psychology spent most of the twentieth century underrating the body, and what changed in the last twenty years. The three writers, their respective contributions, and the honest caveats — van der Kolk's institutional history, the Guzey critique of Walker's book, the memoir-genre selection bias in Gottlieb's case studies. You leave with the framing the path needs, and one minute of noticing your own body before the next lesson starts.
Day 1 of any path is free in the app.
Each day, one idea. In sequence.
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