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Hello Jasmine, first of all congrats to your launch, this seems like a great idea to organize the daily struggle. I do not really understand the whole complexity of this project. But i am very curious, which possibilities this app can bring to my personal life. To bad its only for IOS, any plans for launching on Android?

@fresh_food Thanks for checking it out Alexander! The possibilities are so many. I can share some examples from specific lessons; there are hundreds in all. In just the first Mission (I think 1.2) you start off learning cognitive behavioral therapy, which is a way to retrain your thoughts. CBT says that thoughts create emotions which create behaviors. So, one example is someone is rude to you one day. An automatic thought might be, "this person doesn't like me." The emotion might be sadness. The behavior might be avoiding this person. Our CBT exercise would teach you how to retrain that thought to be a bit more balanced: i.e. maybe they had a bad day, etc so that the feeling and behavior is less automatic/severe. Then we go on to talk about learned helplessness in 1.4. One user example of this is an engineering student who was struggling with Calculus. But the lesson taught them growth mindset and they ended the course with honors. Others have really liked the communication/relationship missions, which are #7 and 8. A user said he had been married for 7 years, and he started sending screen shots of the app to his wife to help them communicate. There are also mood exercises that help with that communication. If you are angry with someone, you can try a "hard conversations" exercise - it guides through 5-8 steps to plan out what you'd like to say first. I use it almost every day. It'll ask me every night if I have a mood I want to fix, and usually I do. I choose "frustration" exercises a lot when I have management issues, i.e. people not replying or projects not going the way I hoped. We also have an exercise with being comfortable giving up control (very relevant in an uncertain COVID world). I hope this gives a glimpse. Because it really is so comprehensive, it could be many problems. 🙂

@fresh_food and re: android yes it's in the works! Look out for product hunt round two 🙂

Congrats on the launch! I'm a big fan of using CBT and other research-based psychological tools to improve my life. I find it interesting that you're taking a Headspace like course approach to having people learn about CBT instead of the get a chatbot to administer the CBT approach that other startups are taking. Pumped to check Life out.

@loslivs Hi Carlos, thank you and appreciate your checking us out! Agree, I'm a huge fan of CBT also. The biggest difference is that CBT is less than 1% of our content. So CBT chat bots probably cover only our Mission 1.2 and 1.3, on CBT and cognitive distortions, out of hundred-plus. It'd be like if you just did Missions 1.2-1.3, over and over and over. That's pretty limited! Because of that breadth, we teach things that I don't think a bot can, at least yet. For example, I've tried to ask a bot what to do with my life. It didn't go anywhere 🙂. But in LIFE's Mission 2, we teach something called narrative therapy and walk through your personal hero journey to start shaping that life story. Then in Mission 3 we talk about the Schwartz Theory of Basic Human Values, and help you find a "north star." We also show how values conflict naturally: like, I want financial security, but that's pretty divergent from building a startup. I have to choose which value matters more and Mission 3 helps me develop that hierarchy. Or, a CBT bot might not be able to help me solve a problem like "I don't know whether to break up with my significant other." However in LIFE Mission 4, you can learn about what we regret and why. In Mission 7, you can learn about attachment styles and how our upbringing affects our adult love life. You can figure out if what you're looking for in a person are traits for lasting love, you can learn about the emotional bank account and see if you're in deficit. And then in Mission 8, we talk about all the ways to fight... and you can diagnose if your relationship is something you want to save, whether it's beyond repair, and if not, how to repair it.

@jasmine_chen2 I appreciate the inside scoop into your mental model for rationalizing the decision to sway from the chatbot! Wholeheartedly, agree that there is important life design value left on the table with the chatbot. I wish you the best of luck!

@jasmine_chen2 @loslivs awesome Carlos, would love to hear more when you try it out.

Cool on boarding screens in the app! You can also make these amazing animations in 60 FPS to make it look more flowly. Ah anyway the app is great, I’m happy to leave a feedback to DM! Congrats!

@realmaxrand Thanks so much Max, appreciate your feedback!

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