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

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Want a career change? This book will help you make that change, but not by sitting around trying to decide what that change is going to be. We’re going to help you think like a designer and build your future, prototype by prototype. We’re going to help you approach your own life design challenges with the same kind of curiosity and the same kind of creativity that resulted in the invention of the printing press, the lightbulb, and the Internet. 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. 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. Bill Burnett is the current executive director of the Design Program at Stanford. He has a BS and MS in product design and has designed numerous products throughout his career. He obtained a design award for designing the first ever slate computer and also helps advise startups. He is also currently on the Board of VOZ. [3] Chapter 6 is devoted to prototyping: asking questions, uncovering hidden biases, iterating rapidly, and creating momentum. Were you familiar with this concept before reading the book? What aspects of your life have you prototyped?

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But I have two big takeaways that live in my head after reading this book through several times (and sharing the activities with friends over the years). #1: Your life isn’t all bad I imagine the class would be beneficial & very popular but being I only listened to the audible & used the workbook I’m limited to rating those. 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?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. 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 ] Did you hold a brainstorming session? What was your most successful question? How many ideas did you generate? Now that you have a bunch of individualized ideas for your life, they walk you through Prototyping. After that, they spend a few chapters on skills such as job hunting, creating your dream job, and choosing happiness. 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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final product อยู่ในหัวหรอก แต่มันจะเป็นลักษณะของการจินตนาการ, ทดลองสร้างตัวตนแบบ, เปิดรับฟีดแบ๊ค จากนั้นจึงค่อยๆ ปรับปรุงแก้ไขไปเรื่อยๆ จนสุดท้ายมันกลายเป็นตัว final แบบที่เราเห็น ซึ่ง final product มันอาจต่างจากสิ่งที่เราจินตนาการตอนสร้าง prototype อันแรกมากเลยก็ได้ (หนังสือยกตัวอย่างเรื่องเมาส์ ที่ในตอนแรกผู้ออกแบบก็ไม่ได้คิดว่าจะต้องสร้างอุปกรณ์อันเท่ากระแบะมือและมีลูกกลิ้งข้างในเพื่อใช้ควบคุมเคอเซอร์บนหน้าจอ) 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 What got me even more excited is that while reading the book I would get ideas to implement I would stop reading and go implement them right away only to discover that at the end of the chapter they are the very ame things the authos suggest to do. 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. SummaryPractical แต่ชอบไอเดียหลักในเรื่องการวางแผนชีวิต และคิดว่าผู้เขียนเปรียบเทียบการวางแผนชีวิตกับการออกแบบได้เห็นภาพดี There are concepts and ideas that when you learn will make life interesting to you just by knowing that there are actually people who think a certain way or have a certain point of view on the same things that once seemed daunting for you which will make the same things exciting for you. Design Thinking konseptinin insanın kendi hayatına uyarlaması kitabın ana fikri. Çok güzel noktalara değiniyor ancak kitabın yazılış biçimi çok kötü. İngilizce öğreten ders kitapları gibi. Her bölümün sonlarında evde yapmanız gereken aktiviteler paylaşıyor. Baya pdf olarak indirip, yazıcıdan çıktı alıp doldurmanız gereken formlar var, ve bunların bazılarını bir alışkanlık haline getirmenizi, haftada/ayda/yılda bir yapmanızı istiyor. 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. When you created your Odyssey Plans, which one set your heart to racing? Was it a new discovery for you?

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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. The book walks you through a series of exercises that build on each other to help you build your ideal life. It roughly follows the design thinking process, which involves immersing yourself in the current state of things, defining the exact problem, brainstorming new ideas, then testing the best ideas out.

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Ask for Help: you’ll never design your perfect life without input, since other people will challenge your biases and bring surprising ideas to the table – you won’t be able to design your life without some radical collaboration The Process of Designing Your Life This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. ( December 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Here the book encourages using the data that has been accumulated so far to conduct a plan for the future. This plan can be long or short term. The book once again proclaims the power of journaling and offers sample charts on how the reader should plan their future. [5] Prototyping [ edit ] 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.)

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Applying for jobs is ridiculous. Go meet people, be interested and interesting, and solve real problems. Are you discussing this book with your Life Design Team? If you haven’t assembled one yet, what’s stopping you? So I don't disagree with them 100% - I just don't see very much of real value here for people who aren't over-anxious, confused, or indecisive one-percenters.

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. 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. 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. Designing Your Life puts forward the idea that the same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products and spaces can be used to build towards a better life and career by a design of your own making.