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

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This actually aligns with some of what I’ve read about financial independence and early retirement. A lot of retirees find themselves suddenly dissatisfied, unaware until the moment of retiring of how much of their self-worth they’d put into their career. Hell, I’ve gone through those exact emotions in the past two years here in Berlin. But working on shifting your mindset into constantly designing your life will help squash those feelings. Summary I love that this book starts with an assessment of your life NOW. While it would be easy to focus on the deficits that are found in that assessment, the Good Time Journal activity is meant to discover the parts of your life that you actively enjoy. I think this is the key to what makes this book different from a lot of self-help books. It’s not about filling some undefined hole in your life. It’s about finding what you enjoy about your life and designing ways to do more of it.

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By the way. I want to allude this as well, there is no guarantee for book to even work in the way author wants as I doubt myself it's possibility to fit in every scenario however, I can guarantee it to have at least a slight impact. So you should be able implement it over the surface of your life and produce a more happy person as a result, if not like joker who is always seems to be on the happy path. Also, I'm not like saying all of this because I have experienced these changes in my code, I'm saying because the strong reasons and evidences it provides. Simply, you should give this generous book a try and see yourself. Change your life in 2023 with the simple, scientifically proven method that has already worked for thousands of people. Designing Your Life walks readers through the process of building a satisfying, meaningful life by approaching the challenge the way a designer would. Experimentation. Wayfinding. Prototyping. Constant iteration. You should read the book. Everyone else will.”—Daniel Pink, author of Drive Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve.Designing Your Life] teaches you how to change what's not working by turning ideas on their head' Viv Groskop, author of How To Own The Room

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Designers imagine things that don’t yet exist, and then they build them, and then the world changes. You can do this in your own life. You can imagine a career and a life that don’t exist; you can build that future you, and as a result your life will change. 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. So why only three stars? Poor expectation management: It's not entirely clear from the title or the blurb that this book is exclusively about designing your career, and when I started reading this I was expecting something much more holistic. If you're not looking to make changes in your career, then this book doesn't really have anything to offer you, even if you *do* want to actively design other parts of your life. I'm sure that some of the concepts are applicable to other areas of life, but learning how to apply them to different areas would require a whole 'nother book. (Or, you know, already being intimately familiar with design thinking.) Everything is written in an closed system, containing author's belief that work for your life, winning over the popular beliefs we usually have that don't actually work. If you use every single practice and exercise given in the book together or separately, your life would become much more balanced. It would feel like you have to just snap your fingers and boom, you get your results. Okay maybe not entirely like that, but it's competent enough to be believable. Also, this book informs the readers beforehand, in case they begin to act upon it, which is something they highly recommend including myself (not a member in the development of book), that your dream life wouldn't become a reality. It's not the point and it certainly will never happen. If your expecting that then don't lumber yourself. You will just find more ease and satisfaction in work and personal life rather than pure fantasy. Until now, have you received more advice (when someone is telling you what they think) when making a decision, or more counsel (when someone is trying to help you figure out what you think)? Which has proved more helpful?Failure is just the raw material of success. You're not going to starve under a bridge. Be bold and get to work. When you think like a designer, when you are willing to ask the questions, when you realize that life is always about designing something that has never existed before, then your life can sparkle in a way that you could never have imagined. That is, if you like sparkles. It’s your design, after all. In this chapter, the book assumes the reader now has a good starting point and is ready to build a "compass" that will help guide them through life. The compass is made up of a workview and a lifeview. The workview revolves on what the reader's perceptions of work are and how important it is to them. The lifeview involves the philosophical questions of what gives life meaning. After assessing the workview and lifeview, the reader is on their way to creating their compass. [5] [4] Wayfinding [ edit ] Designing Your Life offers some useful tips in regard to making changes. While it can apply to other areas, the majority of the book focused on career applications which is practical, since the majority of us tend to spend most of our time at work. There was useful information throughout the book that I think can apply to most people seeking some type of change - small or drastic, but I personally didn't think the tips were groundbreaking or crazy game changers. Just ways to reframe some of the deep daunting questions of being an adult and trying to achieve a professionally fulfilling life. final product อยู่ในหัวหรอก แต่มันจะเป็นลักษณะของการจินตนาการ, ทดลองสร้างตัวตนแบบ, เปิดรับฟีดแบ๊ค จากนั้นจึงค่อยๆ ปรับปรุงแก้ไขไปเรื่อยๆ จนสุดท้ายมันกลายเป็นตัว final แบบที่เราเห็น ซึ่ง final product มันอาจต่างจากสิ่งที่เราจินตนาการตอนสร้าง prototype อันแรกมากเลยก็ได้ (หนังสือยกตัวอย่างเรื่องเมาส์ ที่ในตอนแรกผู้ออกแบบก็ไม่ได้คิดว่าจะต้องสร้างอุปกรณ์อันเท่ากระแบะมือและมีลูกกลิ้งข้างในเพื่อใช้ควบคุมเคอเซอร์บนหน้าจอ)

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I don’t know why authors choose to release audio versions of their books but fail to hire professional narrators. I’ve yet to listen to a book in which the author read his/her own work & I thought the performance couldn’t have been improved upon. This was an especially bad decision for this book. The authors are university professors & their performance (imo) felt like a lecture. Blah blah blah Stanford.... blah blah Stanford. In this book, 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 or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. 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. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life is a book by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans that aims to help readers organize themselves through journaling and design thinking.Dysfunctional Belief: Happiness is having it all. Reframe: Happiness is letting go of what you don’t need." Reframe Problems: reframing is a powerful tool, and the authors help by stating and reframing common dysfunctional beliefs This [is] the career book of the next decade and . . . the go-to book that is read as a rite of passage whenever someone is ready to create a life they love.”—David Kelley, Founder of IDEO

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First, you build a picture of your current life based on a Health/Work/Play/Love Dashboard. Then, you build yourself a life compass using your Workview and Lifeview. After that, they introduce the concept of wayfinding (choosing a direction without knowing the exact destination) via the Good Time Journal exercise. Are you discussing this book with your Life Design Team? If you haven’t assembled one yet, what’s stopping you? I actually thought this was going to be more about life rather than focusing on just work. Dschool and DT apologists will insist that this stuff can be applied to life too, but that's a farking load of steaming hot BS. It's about work. Full stop.

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In Stanford’s Design Program, we have taught more than a thousand students design thinking and how to design their lives. And we’ll let you in on a secret—no one has ever failed our class. In fact, it’s impossible to flunk. We have more than sixty years of combined teaching experience, and we have taught this approach to high school students, college students, graduate students, Ph.D. students, twenty-somethings, mid-career executives, and retirees wanting an “encore” career. 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. The final section of the book has tips for creating failure immunity in your search for your dream job. It also has how to build a team to support you through the process (remember what I said about asking for help?).