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Designing Your Life

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Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans encourages readers to apply design principles to their life and career planning. The authors guide you in examining your life through the lens of design thinking, helping you to explore different possibilities and construct a fulfilling, balanced lifestyle. They offer actionable steps and exercises to assist in tackling life's uncertainties and making informed, creative decisions to navigate future paths.
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If you're looking to creatively tackle life's big decisions and find fulfilment, this book offers a fresh perspective. Using design principles, it guides you in constructing a life that aligns with your true interests and values, making it ideal for those eager to innovate their approach to personal and professional development.

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Designing Your Life

Change your life in 2021 with the simple, scientifically proven method that has already worked for thousands of people.

'Life has questions.

This really works! In book form for the first time, the simple, scientifically proven method that has already changed thousands of lives

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This really works! In book form for the first time, the simple, scientifically proven method that has already changed thousands of lives.

Change your life in 2023 with the simple, scientifically proven method that has already worked for thousands of people.

'Life has questions. They have answers' - New York Times

At last, a book that shows you how to build - design - a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage. A well-designed life means a life well-lived. Many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question, 'What do I want to be when I grow up?'

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.

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

An empowering book based on their popular class of the same name at Stanford University...this book will easily earn a place among career-finding classics - Publishers Weekly

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Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans is praised for applying design thinking principles to personal and career development. The authors suggest methods like reframing, prototyping, and brainstorming to improve decision-making and enhance fulfilment. Critics highlight the book's experiential approach, which embraces failure as part of the process, offering a creative alternative to conventional, data-driven mindsets. It's described as empowering and insightful, promoting a playful and exploratory attitude towards shaping one's life path.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784701178

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 December 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 136.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 242g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Bill Burnett (Author) Bill Burnett is the Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford. He got his BS and MS in Product Design at Stanford and has worked professionally on a wide variety of projects ranging from award-winning Apple PowerBooks to the original Star Wars action figures. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents, and design awards for a variety of products including the first 'slate' computer. Dave Evans (Author) Dave Evans is the Co-Founder of the Stanford Life Design Lab and holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford. Early in his career he worked for Apple, where he led the mouse-design team and introduced laser printing to the masses. He then helped found the pioneering interactive and game software developer Electronic Arts.

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