E171 Ryan Bush Mindform Platform & Community
Let’s Be Well Together Podcast - Episode 171
Date: May 6, 2025
Participants: John Webster and Elise Seifert
Guest: Ryan A. Bush
Start Times and Segments:
[0:00:16] What’s On Your Mind: . Elise chats about connections she feels with her newborn son. It includes connection through shared rhythms and unspoken cues. She was surprised by their synchronized waking times and how her presence alone calms him. Watching his fascination with everyday objects reminded her to slow down and find wonder in simple, overlooked moments.
[0:10:34] Expanding Minds Interview: [Mental Wellness] We interview Ryan Bush. He saw a gap in how people train their minds compared to their bodies. While society embraces physical fitness routines, there's no equivalent for deliberate mental development. He created Mindform to fill a void, initially as an online platform for members. It offers a structured, intentional way to "work out" the mind for clarity, strength, and long-term growth. Members range from founders and creatives to systems-oriented professionals—people motivated by curiosity and intentional living. Entry is through application then invitation, fostering a high trust, aligned community. Features include structured dialogue between members, online information and workbooks, apps, and more. Mindform enables individuals to gain mastery over their cognitive lives, allowing them to think independently, live deliberately, and create work of enduring value.
[0:27:55] Running Popup: John realized that wellness is a byproduct of living an active life. Instead of chasing wellness, he focuses on performing balanced activities that foster wellness naturally in different areas. It’s helping him get closer to understanding and feeling of “life in every breath”. It's more about living and less about asking how it's working.
Takeaways:
Ryan – Mindform is a psychotecture collective and training platform focused on developing better mental habits.
Ryan – Psychitecture is the process of designing your own mind to optimize mental patterns and improve health and happiness.
Ryan – The community started out digital and now includes in-person retreats.
Ryan – It offers a collection of tools and resources to help overcome anxiety, depression, and build resilience and wellbeing. It has an app and a companion app, along with programs, weekly events, and reading topics.
Ryan – It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet for introspective, philosophically inclined people interested in self-improvement.
Ryan – Mindform aims to create a gym-like community for optimizing the mind, similar to physical fitness communities.
Ryan – Members are highly reflective individuals interested in mindfulness, stoicism, Buddhism, and psychological growth.
Ryan – Mindform fosters curiosity, active listening, and civil disagreements, avoiding binary ideologies and political debates.
Guest Information: Ryan A Bush is a thinker, author and designer focused on building better systems, better people, and a better future. His background is in the design of systems. He’s worked with tech startups to design and develop everything from physical products to software, to buildings, to business models. He’s had a lifelong interest in introspective investigation, ravenous reading, and obsessive self-optimization. For many years, Ryan has studied the insights of ancient teachers, practical philosophers and cognitive scientists. He’s written two books – The first – Designing the Mind – helps readers understand the workings of their own minds and the keys to sculpting them. The second – Become Who You Are – is about the psychology of well-being and concepts connected with Happiness.
Links to some of Ryan’s books:
Become Who You Are: A New Theory of Self-Esteem, Human Greatness, and the Opposite of Depression
The Book of Self Mastery: Timeless Quotes About Knowing, Changing, and Mastering Yourself
Link to Mindform community: https://mindform.io/
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