Course
Beginner-friendlyPeace of mind: how attention is taken, and how it is kept
Work out what pulls at a mind all day, what a shown self costs to keep up, what grows in the gap between a feeling and an act, and what a quiet mind can do and is joined to.
4 chapters · 15 lessons · about 69 min in total
The shape of it
15 lessons
About 69 minutes in total. Your progress is kept on this device — no account, nothing sent anywhere.
Course complete
Put your name on it and print it, or save it as a PDF. Nothing is sent anywhere.
The lessons
Chapter 1What pulls at a mind4 lessons · about 19 min
01One thing at a time
Work out what a switch costs a mind, and why a screen asks for that cost every minute.
About 5 min
02A loop with no end
Spot the stopping point a page used to have, and trace why a reward that comes only sometimes keeps a hand pulling.
About 5 min
03A want that was made
Tell apart a want that was there before the cue from one that arrived with it, and say what happens when the cue stops.
About 5 min
04More costs attention
Work out what every extra thing costs to keep, and tell less that was chosen from less that was forced.
About 5 min
Chapter 2The shown self and the lived one4 lessons · about 18 min
05Two selves
Tell apart the self a person shows from the one they live, and work out what the gap between them costs to keep.
About 5 min
06The audience holds the pen
Trace how what gets rewarded gets repeated, until the shown self drifts toward what the crowd wants.
About 5 min
07Recorded, for anyone, for ever
Work out who the audience of a recorded moment is, and what a recording loses that the room kept.
About 5 min
08Plain, with nothing to keep up
Spot why a self with no gap needs no upkeep, and tell being plain from being poor.
About 5 min
Chapter 3The gap, the word and the line4 lessons · about 18 min
09The gap between a feeling and an act
Trace what grows in the gap between a trigger and an act, and work out what one forced pause changed.
About 5 min
10What you carry into the next moment
Spot the residue one moment leaves on the next, and say what a gap does to it.
About 5 min
11Who a word is for
Work out who a sentence lands on, a friend, a crowd or a recording, and what each one does with it.
About 5 min
12A line both sides keep
Work out why a boundary holds only when both sides keep it, and which rule won a contest of rules.
About 5 min
Chapter 4Quiet, and the whole3 lessons · about 15 min
13Quiet is where deep attention lives
Work out how many minutes of deep attention an hour holds at each rate of interruption, and name the state that needs them.
About 5 min
14Two readings of one event
Trace how attention narrows when a mind reads danger, and tell the narrow reading of an event from the open one.
About 5 min
15One evening, taken apart
Take one ordinary evening apart with everything in the course, and trace where the person in it is joined to everyone else.
About 6 min