Thursday, February 10, 2022

Designing Your Life

I first learned about the Designing Your Life book through a Wall Street Journal essay by the book's authors, Stanford professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. I really like how this book is about giving readers a systematic process (a design process) to figure out their own well designed life, i.e. what works for me likely won't work for you. It's reframing the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" into "Who or what do you want to grow into?" (page xx-xxi). The book shares five mind-sets and how to use them for life design: curiosity, bias to action (try stuff), reframing, awareness (it's a process) and radical collaboration (ask for help). I highly recommend this book and the authors offer many free online resources including pretty PDF worksheets!

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