🧠 I Smuggled a Neuroscience Training Into a Story About Sourdough.

Deep Thoughs and Whatnots™

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(And yes, it worked.)

My latest piece for The Deductionists is called “The Table with the Woman Who Did Not Smile.”

It’s a fictional story set in a supper club for the sharpest minds on Earth.

But under the candlelight and Nobel-level snark, it’s secretly about something else: focus.

Not just why we lose it.

But how we get it back—on demand.

✔️ Mental reset techniques

✔️ Visual and sensory anchors

✔️ Behavior change rituals, dressed as dinner conversation

🎯 The goal?

Create learning that doesn’t feel like learning.

Because when something is emotionally sticky, it becomes neurologically sticky too.

But here’s where it gets meta…

💡 After writing the story, I treated it like unstructured training data.

Then I used the 7Taps CoPilot AI to turn that content into a companion microlearning experience—spaced out over 5 digestible sessions.

And yes, I documented the entire process.

👀 Here’s the TL;DR from that build:

Took a long-form Rise360 course (or story, or whatever content you already have)
Used ChatGPT to extract learning goals, audience needs, and big takeaways
Dropped those into 7Taps CoPilot
Added my media assets
Let CoPilot generate mobile-first lessons with polls, quizzes, and real feedback
Scheduled it all out using 7Taps’ spaced repetition feature

🧠 End result:

Training + reinforcement.

Emotion + behavior.

Story + science.

And all in under an hour (yes, I took a coffee break while it built).

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