On our path to enlightenment, we are all eventually going to wrestle  with our own egos. This week's guest, meditation teacher and app  designer Jay Vidyarthi is the founder of Still Ape,  the world's first user-experience design studio focused exclusively on  mindfulness, compassion, and wellbeing. However, not too long before  working in the world of digital wellness, Jay had dreams of becoming a  rock star. He dropped out of college in his early 20s to tour with his  band, but soon Jay found out that his rock-star expectations were about  feeding his ego, so he began the long process of grappling with, and  befriending his ego.

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