Notes From the New World Mindfulness, Success, Co-founding an App, & Overcoming Failure with Open’s Manoj Dias
147: Chelsea sits down with Manoj Dias, the co-founder of Open, the app she’s a cult-fan of.
They discuss:
- Manoj’s journey into mindfulness after a breakdown working in corporate life
- Serendipity, and if success comes from hard work or luck
- Finding his way to Open and helping build the incredible app
- The identity overlap from meditation instructor to app founder, and how he deals with it
- Building failure tolerance as an entrepreneur
- The philosophy and wisdom that goes into the app
- The path to success
- so much more!
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