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Designing Your Life

How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

13 minBill Burnett,Dave Evans

What's it about

Feeling stuck in a career or life path that isn't quite right? Learn how to apply the same design thinking responsible for incredible technology and products to your own life. This summary shows you how to build your way forward, prototyping different lives and finding what truly works for you. Stop overthinking and start creating. You'll discover practical, actionable tools from two Stanford design professors to reframe dysfunctional beliefs, brainstorm new possibilities, and map out multiple future paths. It's time to stop waiting for a passion to find you and start designing a joyful, fulfilling life.

Meet the author

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans are the co-founders of the Stanford Life Design Lab, where they teach the university's most popular and transformative career development course. They adapted their innovative curriculum, which applies design thinking principles to life planning, into their bestselling book, "Designing Your Life." Drawing from decades of experience in Silicon Valley product design and executive leadership, they provide a practical, creative framework to help people of all ages build a more joyful and fulfilling future.

Designing Your Life book cover