Free courses · 1,280 lessons
What do you want to get better at?
- Money — Money Lessons
- Stress, sleep & wellbeing — Health Learn & Practice
- Relationships — People & Relationships Academy
- Habits — Habit Lab
- Direction & decisions — Life Navigation Lessons
- Thinking clearly — Thinking Lab
- Working alongside AI — Learn Beyond AI
- Research — Research Academy
- Everyday life skills — Life Skills
- Starting a company — Founder Academy
- Investing — Investor Academy
The everyday courses are free to read, start to finish, with no account. The Founder and Investor academies show the start of every lesson and the rest with a free account. They are written in plain language with realistic examples, and each one says honestly where the evidence is strong and where people disagree. An account adds what is yours: saved progress, private answers, and practice with your own goals, habits, money and health.
For everyday life
Money Lessons
Personal finance
How money really works in everyday life.
Earning, spending, budgeting, saving, debt, investing basics and the psychology behind them, taught in 138 short lessons across 12 worlds. Real-life situations, decision cases and small experiments help you apply each idea to your own money.
138 lessons · 12 worlds · a money glossary · real-life situations · a decision lab · money experiments. For: Anyone who earns, spends, saves or borrows — no finance background needed.
Health Learn & Practice
Mind and body
Understand your mind and body — and practise what helps.
Stress, anxiety, panic, anger, low mood and depression, loneliness, self-doubt, focus, motivation, sleep, movement, food, routine and resilience, in 192 lessons across 12 modules, each labelled with how strong the evidence is. “What are you going through?” pages meet eleven hard feelings one at a time — what each is, what helps now, what helps over time and when to get help — and guided techniques, myth checks and “what can I do right now” pages turn the ideas into practice. Education, not diagnosis.
192 lessons · 12 modules · “What are you going through?” — 11 hard feelings · 44 guided techniques · health myths checked · a health glossary · what to do right now. For: Anyone who wants to look after their mind and body — not a substitute for a doctor or therapist.
People & Relationships Academy
Relationships and social skills
Communication, connection and the people in your life.
Communication, conversation, emotional intelligence, friendship, family, conflict and boundaries, networking, influence and leadership, in 144 lessons across 15 modules — including how to recognise manipulation and protect yourself. Each lesson ends with a real-life challenge.
144 lessons · 15 modules · practice labs · real-life challenges · great books and ideas on people. For: Anyone who wants better conversations and stronger relationships, at home, with friends or at work.
Habit Lab
Habits and behaviour change
How habits work — and how to build or change one.
Cues, environment, motivation, planning, routines and consistency, in 103 lessons across 10 modules, grounded in research you can check. A habit troubleshooter, 60 techniques, book notes and myth checks help you fix the habit you are actually struggling with.
103 lessons · 10 modules · a habit troubleshooter · 60 habit techniques · habit book notes · habit myths checked. For: Anyone trying to start a habit, stop one, or keep one going.
Life Navigation Lessons
Navigating your life
Learn to navigate your life.
Self-direction, knowing yourself, meaning, decisions, problem solving, uncertainty, goals, planning, motivation, reflection, change, setbacks, vision, life transitions and priorities, in 102 lessons across 16 modules. Each lesson ends with a practical action, and six guided tools help you think through a real decision, plan or experience.
102 lessons · 16 modules · 6 practice tools · the life navigation loop · a daily practice and reflection prompt. For: Anyone deciding what to do with their life, facing a big decision, or trying to turn intentions into action.
Thinking Lab
Thinking skills
Train the way you think — not just what you know.
Critical, logical, creative, systems, strategic and decision thinking, argument and questioning, in 36 lessons across 11 modules with worked examples. Plus 37 mental models, 48 step-by-step thinking methods and the big ideas of 119 books.
36 lessons · 11 modules · 37 mental models · 48 thinking methods · ideas from 119 books. For: Students, professionals and anyone who wants to reason, decide and solve problems more clearly.
Learn Beyond AI
Human skills in the age of AI
What AI does well, where it fails, and what to build alongside it.
What modern AI actually is, where it is strong and where it is unreliable — and the human capabilities worth building alongside it: judgement, creativity, connection, learning and purpose. 19 lessons across 9 areas, each with a worked example.
19 lessons · 9 areas · what AI can and cannot do yet. For: Anyone wondering how their work and learning should change as AI improves.
Research Academy
Research skills
How to find out what is true — for study, work or life.
From a good question to evidence, methods, statistics, ethics, reading papers and writing it up, in 57 lessons across 19 modules. Useful for a personal decision, a class, a job or a startup — not only a thesis.
57 lessons · 19 modules · practice exercises for every module. For: Students, researchers, professionals and founders who need to investigate a question properly.
Life Skills
Everyday life skills
Short lesson sets for the skills school rarely taught.
Risk and uncertainty, knowing yourself, staying safe online, leadership, adaptability, ethics, meaning and practical life, in 41 lessons across 8 short sets — each with a worked example, a practice prompt and something real to try this week.
41 lessons · 8 sets · a practical life checklist. For: Anyone building the everyday skills that make the rest of life easier.
For founders and investors
Founder Academy
Starting a company
How startups actually work, for first-time founders.
Startup finance, fundraising, customers, product, sales, hiring and exits, in 124 lessons across 21 subjects, with a 176-term glossary and case studies — written for founders who have never run a company.
124 lessons · 21 subjects · a 176-term founder glossary · startup case studies. For: First-time founders and anyone thinking about starting a company.
Investor Academy
Investing
Every asset class and every step of investing, explained plainly.
Risk and return, public markets, funds, bonds, real estate, startups and venture, due diligence, valuation and portfolio construction, in 324 lessons across 54 subjects, with a 578-term glossary and case studies. Education, not investment advice.
324 lessons · 54 subjects · a 578-term investing glossary · investing case studies. For: New and experienced investors, angels and anyone who wants to understand where money can be invested.
How these courses are written
Plain words, real examples
Every idea is shown in a realistic situation — often read twice: the first reaction, then the same moment with the idea.
Honest about the evidence
Health and habit lessons say how strong the research is. Money and investing lessons say where rules differ by country. None of it is advice for your particular situation.
Nothing grades you
No scores, no levels, no streaks. A lesson’s level describes the lesson, never the reader.