Designing Your Life
How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
About the book
Bill Burnett, who runs Stanford's Design Program, and his colleague Dave Evans apply design thinking to building a career and a life. The book grew out of an experimental Stanford course of the same name for juniors and seniors, meant to prepare students for life and work after graduation. Across eleven chapters of exercises, readers rate four areas of their lives (health, work, play and love), build a compass from a workview and a lifeview, and keep a journal of which activities bring engagement and energy. Other chapters cover getting unstuck with mind maps, planning possible futures and prototyping them through conversations and experiences. It reached the New York Times best seller list.
Network under 40 founder Darrah Brustein said its practical tools helped her at a moment when she was reworking her path.
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Darrah Brustein (Founder/Network under 40)
Another is Designing Your Life by two Stanford professors who teach a course on how to create your life. I deeply believe in the necessity and purpose of this, and the book had actionable tools to help me get there in a moment where I was rejiggering my path.
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