You use your brain all day and know nothing about it
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Understand your own brain: attention, memory, emotion, sleep and habit.
A course on the brain for its owner. It covers how attention, memory, emotion, sleep and habit actually work, what the science supports about improving them, and the neuromyths to drop.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.
Type this when Cadence asks what you want to learn
I want to understand how my brain works: attention, memory, emotion, sleep and habit, in plain terms, and what the science says about improving them.
Change any word so it fits your situation. The course is built from what you type and a few setup questions.
- Best for
- Science & nature
- Prerequisites
- None. Bring the situation you have.
- Course length
- 7 to 30 lessons, sized to your goal
- Lesson pace
- About 10 minutes a day
- Format
- Read it, or play the audio
- Access
- Available on the App Store, with early features and Android testing access
Before the course is built
Setup asks about your situation first.
Lesson 1 opens on the moment you describe, and the examples use your role. For this request, expect questions like these.
- What do you most want to understand: focus, memory, mood, sleep, or habits?
- Have you read popular brain books, and did they help?
- Is there something about your own brain that puzzles you?
Right for now
If any of this sounds familiar, start here.
You have absorbed the myths
Ten percent, left brain, learning styles.
You want to improve something
Focus, memory or mood, with methods that have evidence.
Course arc
Where the course goes, in order.
Cadence writes the lessons for you, so the exact path follows your answers. This is the ground a course built from this sentence covers.
01 / 06Attention
What it is, why it is limited, and what breaks it.
Memory
How memories form, fade and change.
Emotion
What emotions are for and how the brain produces them.
Sleep
What the brain does at night and why it matters.
Habit and change
How the brain automates behaviour and how it changes.
Neuromyths
The popular claims to drop, and why they persist.
What changes
What you will be able to do, and what you will stop believing.
You will be able to
Understand the main systems
Describe how attention, memory, emotion and sleep work at a useful level.
Drop the myths
Recognise popular claims the science does not support.
Apply the evidence
Use what is known to improve focus, memory and mood.
Ideas this course corrects
You use ten percent of your brain
You use all of it. The myth has no basis in any study.
Brain training apps make you smarter
They make you better at the app. Transfer to general ability is weak or absent.
Course questions
What to know before you start.
Is this a fixed course?
No. Cadence builds the course when you type the sentence and answer a few setup questions, so the lessons follow your situation. This page describes what a course built from this request covers. You see the whole path before Lesson 1.
Who is this course for?
A course on the brain for its owner. It covers how attention, memory, emotion, sleep and habit actually work, what the science supports about improving them, and the neuromyths to drop. It sits under Science & nature in the Ideas & discovery part of the library.
Do I need any prior experience?
No. Setup asks what you already know and where you want to use it, and the course starts from there. Bring a real situation if you have one; the examples are built around it.
How long does it take?
Courses run 7 to 30 lessons of about 10 minutes, sized to what you asked for. One lesson a day is the intended pace, and you can go faster. Lessons can be read or played as audio.
Does this course award a certificate or degree?
No. Cadence is for practical self-learning and does not award accredited degrees or professional certification.
Start today
Type it, answer a few questions, open Lesson 1.
The sentence to type
I want to understand how my brain works: attention, memory, emotion, sleep and habit, in plain terms, and what the science says about improving them.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.