Day 01
Big Five Personality — The OCEAN Dimensions
Stability vs Change · Fit Effects · MBTI Critique
Day 02
Attachment Theory — Your Relational Operating System
Four Types · Adult Attachment · Parenting · Self-Repair
Day 03
Defense Mechanisms — The Maturing of the Mind's Immune System
Vaillant Hierarchy · Projection · Sublimation · Mature Defenses
Day 04
CBT — Can Changing Your Thoughts Change Your Life?
Cognitive Triangle · 10 Distortions · Thought Records · ACT
Day 05
IFS Internal Family Systems — You Are Not One, You Are Many
3 Parts · 8C Self · 6F Process · Parts Language
Day 06
Self-Compassion — Could You Give Yourself What You Give a Friend?
3 Components · SCS Scale · Tender ↔ Fierce
Day 07
Vulnerability & Boundaries — Taking Off the Armor Takes Courage
Power of Vulnerability · Shame vs Guilt · Clear is Kind · Perfectionism
Day 08
Trauma & the Body — The Body Remembers What You Forgot
Keeps the Score · Polyvagal (Contested) · Window of Tolerance · EMDR/SE
Day 09
Emotional Granularity — Emotions Aren't Triggered, They're Constructed
Constructionism · Core Affect · Labeling · Context & Culture
Day 10
Perfectionism & Procrastination — You're Not Lazy, You're Avoiding a Feeling
Two Faces · Procrastination = Emotion Regulation · Self-Handicapping · Self-Compassion
Day 11
Gottman's Marriage Lab — What Long-Lasting Couples Get Right
Four Horsemen · Bids · Repair · 5:1 & PSO
Day 12
Friendship Psychology — Why Adult Friendships Fade
Adult Decline · Dunbar's Number · Weak Ties · Maintenance
Day 13
Depression & Anxiety — Not Weakness, but Treatable States
Clinical vs Subclinical · Evidence-Based Tx · PHQ-9/GAD-7 · When to Seek Help
Day 14
Attention & ADHD — Not a Lack of Attention, but a Different Self-Regulation System
Adult Recognition · Executive Function · Meds vs Behavioral · Externalize
Day 15
Self-Esteem vs Self-Efficacy — Liking Yourself and Getting Things Done Are Two Different Things
The Distinction · Four Sources · Esteem Movement Failed · Collective Efficacy
Day 16
The Psychology of Habits — Willpower Is a Myth, Context Is the Lever
The Habit Loop · Situationism · Tiny Habits · Identity
Day 17
The Psychology of Motivation — Why Rewards Often Kill Passion
Three Needs · Overjustification · The Continuum · Autonomy-Support
Day 18
Flow — When Focus Becomes Effortless
Optimal Experience · The Flow Channel · Engineering Flow · The Dark Side
Day 19
Stress & Adaptation — Stress Doesn't Hurt You, Not Switching It Off Does
Allostasis · HPA Axis · Three-Region Cost · Engineering Recovery
Day 20
ACEs — Childhood Doesn't "Pass." It Moves Into the Body
Felitti Study · Toxic Stress · Resilience & PCEs · Reparenting
Day 21
Can Personality Change — The Evidence for Stability, and for Change
Two Stabilities · Maturity Principle · Intervention Evidence · Attractor Mechanism
Day 22
Classic Group Psychology — Conformity, Obedience, and an Overrated "Situation Myth"
Asch Conformity · Milgram Obedience · SPE Debunked · Attribution Error
Day 23
Bias & Stereotypes — Shortcuts in the Mind, Echoes in the System
Implicit Bias · Contact Hypothesis · Structural Bias · Replication Crisis
Day 24
Consciousness — How the Brain Lights Up "I Am Here"
Global Workspace · Integrated Information · DMN & the Self · Hard Problem
Day 25
Psychology of Death — The Science of Living Toward Death
Terror Management · Yalom's Concerns · Time Horizons · Dual Process Grief
Day 26
Aging & Meaning — The Other Half of the Truth
Integrity vs Despair · Generativity & Narrative · Science of Wisdom · SOC
Day 27
A Map of Therapy Schools — Hundreds of Methods, Really Just Four Families
Four Families · Dodo Bird Verdict · Third Wave & Mindfulness · Matching
Day 28
How to Find a Therapist — The Right Relationship Beats the Right School
Credential Soup · Working Alliance · Insurance & Access · Rupture & Repair
Day 29
The Willpower Controversy — How a Popular Theory Fell in the Replication Crisis
Rise & Fall of Ego Depletion · Motivation & Belief · Self-Control Paradox · What Works