Designing Your Life

The 1 New York Times Bestseller Whether we re 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question, What do you want to be when you grow up In Designing Your Life, Silicon Valley design innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans use their expertise to help you work out what you want and how to get it.Their phenomenally successful Life Design course has been tried and tested by thousands of people, from students to mid career professionals to retirees contemplating a whole new future Now in book form for the first time, their simple method will teach you how to use basic design tools to create a life that will work for you.Using real life stories and proven techniques like reframing, prototyping and mind mapping, you will learn how to build your way forwards, step by positive step, to a life that s better by a design of your own making.Because a well designed life means a life well lived. Free Read Designing Your Life [ author ] Bill Burnett [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I actually thought this was going to beabout 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.And, sure, okay, the method in the book probably works for thator at least a fairly narrow sub set of highly skilled and highly valued workers in large urban areas People who are basically on track for a good career no matter what For peopl...Try StuffHealth Work Play Love dashboard1 Write a few sentences about how it s going in each of the 4 areas2 Mark where you are 0 to Full 3 Ask yourself if there s a design problem you d like to tackle4 Now ask yourself if it s a problem of gravity not one that s gonna change.Counsel vs AdviceSomeone helps you figure out what you think vs telling you what to doIntegrity Coherence among Who you are What you believe What you are doing.Good Time Journal1 Complete a log of daily activ Try StuffHealth Work Play Love dashboard1 Write a few sentences about how it s going in each of the 4 areas2 Mark where you are 0 to Full 3 Ask yourself if there s a design problem you d like to tackle4 Now ask yourself if it s a problem of gravity not one that s gonna change.Coun...What an excellent read This is going to be my Christmas of 2016 gift for friends and family There s the reframe of a dysfunctional belief or Life Design tip for everyone inside It s especially timely for the recent grad, the restless mid career professional, or the encore passion seeker ready for a change Admittedly, I ve been a Design Thinker for awhile, so the concepts here were not too foreign to me, but the application of them for my personal life very much was Curiosity and prototypi What an excellent read This is going to be my Christmas of 2016 gift for friends and family There s the reframe of a dysfunctional belief or Life Design tip for everyone inside It s especially timely for the recent grad, the restless mid career professional, or the encore passion seeker ready for a change Admittedly, I ve been a Design Thinker f...The concept behind this book was great applying Design Thinking to designing your own life But The actual content was fairly light, fairly uninstructive, and, to be frank, quite unaware of its own privilege To apply the concepts in this book, you have to have the financial and personal capa...While this book offered helpful advice, I found by the end that it was difficult to read and complete the activities As someone who works with designers and lives with one , I found it difficult to suspend my disbelief and accept the idealized vision of designers and design thinking in this book I don t know any designers who are as put together as this book makes it sound like they are, nor do I know any designers who actively use all the steps of design thinking I also found the business While this book offered helpful advice, I found by the end that it was difficult to read and complete the activities As someone who works with designers and lives with one , I found it difficult to suspend my disbelief and accept the idealized vision of designers and design thinking in this book I don t know any designers who are as put together as this book makes it sound like they are, nor do I know any designers who actively use all the steps of design thinking I also found the business language i.e radical collaboration , co creation , reframing failure excruciating to read, thought that many of the case study examples were idealized, and couldn t stand the constant happy referenc...Only two Stanford academics could sell theidea that one designs a life the way one designsa car Life surprises, daunts, accepts gratefullyand surrenders grudgingly mostly those thingsthat people strive toward Sometimes there aresurprises, by ways, tunnels and dead ends wedeal with on a case by case basis Mostly, ourcharacter is fate, as Nietzsche said I guess it wasthe fate of Stanford to hire life designers and tolet their classes become popular The rest of usjust have to muddle through s Only two Stanford academics could sell theidea that one designs a life the way one designsa car Life surprises, daunts, accepts gratefullyand surrenders grudgingly mostly those thingsthat people strive toward Sometimes there aresurprises, by ways, tunnels and dead ends wedeal with on a case by c...Practical final product , , Practical final product , , final final product prototype prototype product , guide 4 prototype prototype Hearing a story about this book on NPR motivated me to purchase Designing Your Life How to Think Like a Designer and Build a Well Lived, Joyful Life In all, I am pleased to have purchased and read this book First, it gave me a different lens by which to view my life Second, it allowed me to look at my youngest child and see how she is a natural born designer, and increased my desire to nurture her approach to life The book is to the point and easy to read, combing ideas with real life stori Hearing a story about this book on NPR motivated me to purchase Designing Your Life How to Think Like a Designer and Build a Well Lived, Joyful Life In all, I am pleased to have purchased and read this book First, it gave me a different lens by which to view my life Second, it allowed me to look at my youngest child and see how she is a natural born designer, and incre...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 ...I wish I had been diligent enough to write down my mental models of the world and publish them in book form Luckily, in Designing Your Life , Burnett and Evans have already done all the hard work for me The nuggets to fluff ratio is pretty high and they hit most of the high points This is required reading for all college students.The key idea of the book is that you have lots of dysfunctional mental models that are holding you b...

• English
• 21 December 2018
Bill Burnett
• Paperback
• 240 pages
• 1784740241
• Bill Burnett
• Designing Your Life