Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

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The book was born out of the eponymous course Burnett and Evans teach at Stanford and uses techniques that anyone familiar with design thinking will instantly recognize to allow us to take control of our lives. If your life is pretty perfect as is, life design can still help you make it an even better version of the life you currently love living. You’re changing, your environment is changing, so there’s no reason why your dreams should be a fixed point.

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Evans is a lecturer for Stanford’s Product Design Program, and he’s also the cofounder of Electronic Arts. I drew an alternative life, in which I would work with photographers at a gallery or an art publisher. In fact, we suggest you go out and get a design team right off the bat—a group of people who will read the book with you and do the exercises alongside you, a collaborative team in which you support one another in your pursuit of a well-designed life. By guiding you to amplify those moments in your life, they’re really setting you up to be happy in your newly-designed life.

Stanford innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who and where we are, our careers and our age. Right now what is left for me is to get some prototypes ready for my parallel lives to experiment with and then delve into the most exciting one.

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It’s helpful for brainstorming your “life design”, but it also feels like a jumble of random blog entries. BILL BURNETT is the executive director of the Stanford Design Program, and was a product leader for Apple's groundbreaking PowerBook business. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, also known as Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You, is a self-help and personal development book by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.Here the book encourages using the data that has been accumulated so far to conduct a plan for the future.

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It means you are not just going to be dreaming up a lot of fun fantasies that have no relationship to the real world—or the real you. Anytime you feel disgruntled with your life, rather than making moves on the first idea that comes to your head, you can be methodical and create a BUNCH of ideas to choose from. It proclaims that when finding a job, one should focus on the needs of the employer instead of their own needs. What you want to do, what you should do, what you've always wanted to do, what you've always wondered to do, which to choose? For people who a) may not be the top in their class, b) may be pursuing careers outside tech and big business, or c) may find themselves in a smaller city or rural situation are NOT going to profit from this, except to realize what choices they don't have and what lives they'll NEVER lead.school classes at Stanford, where graduate students create teams of business, law, engineering, education, and medical students that come up with breakthrough innovations all the time. The book explains to the reader that happiness does not necessarily mean having everything one could desire.

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise. It's also worth keeping in mind that as with *all* self-help books, having the headspace, time, and resources to implement these life-improving principles is a matter of privilege. He directs the undergraduate and graduate program in design at Stanford, both interdepartmental programs between the Mechanical Engineering department and the Art department. Look around your office or home–at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. At last, a book that shows you how to build - design - a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage.

I found this book to be worth reading, at least for the concrete advice on how to evaluate different aspects of your life, and how to analyze your levels of engagement/energy (or lack thereof) in specific activities.