Antariksh

Founder – ZenMind

I’m a chartered accountant by training, based in India, and I spent nineteen years in corporate finance — the last ten of them leading Finance & Accounts function. On paper, that is precisely the wrong CV for someone building an identity-transformation app. I know.

Here’s the thing. I have been reading the books behind ZenMind — habits, Stoicism, money, meaning, attention, Zen — since college. Two decades of margin notes and underlined pages. About two years ago, somewhere between the fortieth and fiftieth book, it occurred to me that nobody had built the thing I actually needed: not another book, not another tracker that congratulated me for opening it, but a daily place to go and answer for what I’d done. Last year I left the full-time job to build it. My colleagues in corporate are still processing this.

If you’re wondering which Squad member I’m closest to, it’s Leo. Not the living-alone part — I share a house with my wife, my daughter, and my mother, which is roughly the opposite of solitude. But the internal Leo, yes. Thoughtful, philosophical, and entirely capable of dressing up avoidance as introspection. I also have a plumbing problem that won’t fix itself. Leo and I are in solidarity on that one.

The diagnostic I kept running into was simple. I knew what to do. I just couldn’t do it daily. Consistency, not knowledge, was the missing piece — and consistency, as James Clear figured out before I did, is a function of identity. You don’t stick to a practice because you have willpower. You stick to it because that practice has become who you are. 

The Dojo exists because that kind of identity shift requires a daily place to show up. I built one, partly for you, mostly for me.

ZenMind is built by someone who is a great deal more like you than you’d guess — which is, I suspect, the only honest reason it might actually work for you too.