Optical Emotions is a companion app designed to help readers and self-explorers apply the ideas from the book Optical Emotions: Eight Mental Models Through Which We Perceive the World. It pairs a Mental Models Self-Assessment Quiz with targeted tools so you can identify dominant thinking patterns, deactivate unhelpful reactions, and practice exercises that reshape how you respond. Users who want measurable self-awareness, practical disablers for recurring habits, and guided exercises grounded in emotional-intelligence techniques will find this app useful as a focused learning and reflection tool to deepen the book’s lessons.

Key Features

⭐ Mental Models Self-Assessment Quiz with slider controls — rate statements from 1 to 10 to reveal which models shape your thinking.

⭐ Results summary that highlights the three predominant mental models and explains their typical behaviors and triggers.

⭐ Mental model disablers offering instant strategies to disengage from unhelpful automatic responses.

⭐ A curated list of exercises using emotional-intelligence techniques to help you shift perspectives and reframe narratives.

⭐ Content designed to enrich the reading and learning experience of the Optical Emotions book.

Advantages

✅ Quick, interactive self-assessment that makes patterns visible at a glance.

✅ Actionable disablers you can apply immediately to break recurring habits.

✅ Exercises that support deliberate practice and gradual change using emotional-intelligence methods.

✅ Optical Emotions complements the book’s framework, helping readers turn concepts into daily habits.

Disadvantages

❎ The app focuses on the book’s eight-model framework and may not cover other psychological approaches.

❎ Results depend on self-reported responses, which reflect how you perceive yourself at the moment.

❎ It is a learning and reflection tool, not a substitute for professional mental health care when needed.