Designing Your Life
Books | Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success
3.9
(182)
Bill Burnett
Dave Evans
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York TimesDesigners 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. 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.
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Author
Bill Burnett
Pages
272
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2016-09-20
ISBN
110187533X 9781101875339
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"Awesome concept about how to actually plan your life, but as a book, boring. The concept is too specific to each person. I don’t doubt the value and I imagine the class they teach is amazing."
Sheldon Rapoza
"Finished 1/25"
Shannon League
"I’m a designer. I much appreciated hearing the idea<br/>of applying design thinking to every day life and learning about the concept of life design. That said, parts of this book were painful. Too much detail or not enough. Too many examples that bled into each other and were distinguished enough. I will add I listened on audiobook—perhaps this is one you really need the read the physical copy on.<br/><br/>Overall, I may pull a couple of things from this over time, but it was revolutionary for me."
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Meredith
"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.<br/><br/>The key idea of the book is that you have lots of dysfunctional mental models that are holding you back. Here are the key takeaways:<br/><br/>* Forget your "passion". You have no idea what your passion is. Explore!<br/>* There is no right choice - only good choosing. The worst choice is decision paralysis.<br/>* Applying for jobs is ridiculous. Go meet people, be interested and interesting, and solve real problems.<br/>* Know the game you're playing. Success disasters are real.<br/>* Failure is just the raw material of success. You're not going to starve under a bridge. Be bold and get to work.<br/>* Only worry about the things you can control.<br/>* Happiness is letting go of what you don’t need.<br/><br/>Full review and highlights at <a href="http://books.max-nova.com/designing-your-life">http://books.max-nova.com/designing-your-life</a>"
Max Nova
