Brain Trainer · 6 courses · taught by She

MASTER DUAL-PROCESS PROMPTING— SYSTEM 1 → SYSTEM 2.

Move beyond System-1 vagueness into System-2 precision.

Kahneman (2011) — Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Course 01 · In progress

Mindset 101 — Think before you prompt

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Lesson 2 · The Architect mindset

“Most people prompt the model. Prompters tell it what they want. Architects tell it how to think — and then let it surprise them.

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Exercise · pick one

Which prompt will produce a better answer?

Write me something about climate change.

As a science journalist, explain how ocean acidification affects coral reefs in 3 short paragraphs, using one striking metaphor and one data point.

Correct — B gives the model a role, a topic, a structure, and constraints.

Practice · 90s

Now write your own.

Structure: Role + Topic + Constraints + Format.

As a senior product designer, review this onboarding flow, flag friction in the first 90 seconds, output a bulleted list with severity

4 of 4 ingredients · strong spec

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Mindset 101

Think before you prompt

Architects tell the model HOW to think, not just what to write.

01The Architect mindset
02Why structure beats cleverness
03When to let the model surprise you

Goal · Role · Context · Format

Goal · Role · Context isn't a recipe — it's a load-bearing wall.

01The five-piece anatomy
02How to layer constraints
03When less is more

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Few-Shot Without Cheating

Teach by example, not by force

Five real examples beat fifty hypothetical ones, every single time.

01Picking examples that generalize
02Avoiding overfitting
03Calibrating with a holdout

Make the model fact-check itself

The model lies politely until you teach it to fact-check itself.

01Self-critique patterns
02When to add a judge model
03Trapdoors for hallucinations

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Voice & Tone Engineering

Sound like yourself, faster

Hedges are how a draft says: I am scared.

01Voice fingerprints
02Killing the AI tells
03Tone presets that travel

Versioning, testing, shipping

If you can't diff it, you can't ship it.

01Naming + namespacing
02Snapshot tests for prompts
03Rolling out to a team

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Schemas are active organizations of past reactions or past experiences.

Frederic Bartlett · Remembering · 1932

Why it works

Eight pillars from cognitive science. Each lesson loads at least three.

Brain Trainer isn't a coding tutorial dressed up. It's an applied cognitive-science curriculum that uses prompts as the practice surface. Every lesson cites the source.

Metacognition

Thinking about how you think — the foundation that lets every other skill compound.

Deliberate practice

Targeted reps on the parts you actually fumble. Not vibe-prompting, drills.

Dual-coding

Pair verbal cues with visual structure — your brain encodes both, then retrieves either.

Scaffolding

Lessons that hand you the wall, the wall with finger-holds, then nothing at all.

Active recall

You write the prompt before you see ours. Then we compare. Memory by use, not re-reading.

Pre-AI thinking drills

Five minutes of unaided thought before you touch the model. That gap is the lesson.

Flow state design

Lessons pitched at the edge of your current ability — Csikszentmihalyi's sweet spot.

Adaptive coaching · She

She watches what you fumble, surfaces the next lesson, never the next ad.

Most of the time we are not thinking about thinking.

Daniel Kahneman

Self-efficacy is the foundation of human agency.

Albert Bandura

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Adaptive coach

Meet She — your one-on-one prompt coach.

She remembers which exercise you fumbled three sessions ago. She pulls the right theory at the right moment. She never sells, never gamifies, never ships dark patterns.

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