Learn the science of human happiness

A project by Jake Leoht

Hello! This site is still pretty new!

Dawnguide is a collection of research about people, condensed into summaries of what is most useful to know for maintaining good mental health. It's also a spaced learning system for memorizing those results long-term.

I'm working on this because I feel there really needs to be an easily accessible evidence-based resource for this stuff. However, I'm not a clinical psychologist, so please use your own judgment in determining whether what I've written is true for you 💛

Dawnguide is open access and open source. The articles will always be free, but the spaced learning part may later become subscription-based so that the project has an independent means of supporting itself. Thanks for reading!

Lessons

Use cognitive science to memorize ideas by spacing your study sessions across time
Spaced learning
Become more emotionally resilient by caring for yourself the way you care for friends
Self-compassion
Allow negative thoughts to peacefully dissipate by focusing on your immediate experience
Mindfulness
Begin a new positive cycle by scheduling meaningful activities
Behavioral activation
Influence your emotions by challenging negative thoughts
Cognitive restructuring
Increase your motivation by setting and achieving smaller objectives
Proximal subgoals
Humans have universal needs for things like safety, love, and autonomy
Self-actualization
Build good habits by associating specific cues with a behavioral response
Trigger-action plans
Find energy to act by contrasting the future you want with obstacles in the present
Mental contrasting