Interview with Toby Sola, Co-Founder of Brightmind

This is a conversation and interview with Toby Sola, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Brightmind, a meditation app that expands the boundaries of human potential through tailored meditation instruction.

We discuss topics such as:

The intersection and fusion of monastic and entrepreneurial cultures


How Toby stays focused and motivated building a technology product designed to help people live better lives


The benefits of meditation and mindfulness not just on stress and sleep, but our ability to make a positive impact on the world


Meditation as training in letting go (and going beyond) your own perspective, which paradoxically allows you to hold on to it much more strongly when it matters most


Whether and how empathy for user experience design is teachable


Behind the scenes of developing an intentional meditation app


Critiques of current meditation teaching techniques and how Brightmind is addressing them, and setting up users for a robust meditation practice


Meditation as a cognitive operating system for modern life


Balancing solving problems (pains) with aspirational benefits (gains) in self-improvement training


How embracing what makes you unique and weird is crucial to building a strong brand and following

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