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Psychology: an introduction

The way to learn something properly. On the schedule you actually have. About what you actually want to understand.

7 days 10 min/day Audio-first Psychology · In progress
Narrated by CatalystAudio-first, on the schedule you actually have
The premise

Basic emotional literacy.

Most adults are not taught about their inner emotional life. They learn what they saw at home, which was often badly done, and then they spend decades managing emotions with tools that do not work. This path is the introduction. Not therapy. Not optimization. Just basic literacy. Seven days, written for the adult who has been doing this without it. By the end you will have a working toolkit for the inner moments that affect everything else.

Day 1, free

Most adults were never taught this either.

Day 1 starts with the man in couples therapy who realises, with some surprise, that he genuinely does not know what he is feeling. He is not unintelligent. He has been working without the basic vocabulary his whole adult life. Day 1 reframes the deficit. It is not personal failure. It is a missing skill that can be learned in any decade of adult life.

Day 1 of any path is free in the app.

Each day, one move. In sequence.

01
Most adults were never taught this either
10 min · why emotional literacy is a missing skill, not a character flaw
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02
Your thoughts are not facts
10 min · the single most useful distinction in psychological self-management
03
Emotions are information
10 min · not problems to be solved. Messages to be read
04
Name what you feel
10 min · the act of accurate labelling reduces the emotion's intensity. The research is unusually strong
05
The body knows first
10 min · tension, breath, posture. The body usually registers an emotion before the mind has language for it
06
The story you tell yourself
10 min · the same event with a different story attached produces a different emotion
07
Your inner life is a relationship
10 min · the longest one of your life. Like any relationship, it gets better with attention
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Most adults were never taught this either

The first lesson of the path. No account, no card — Day 1 of any path is free in the app.

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