Designing Your Life. Book Summary

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Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

What’s inside

Designing Your Life is a book for people who want to claim control of their life and live authentically. Bill Burnett and Dave Evans apply the principles of design thinking to managing one’s career and life. The book includes several exercises and stories to help readers design their vocational way and craft a life that brings genuine satisfaction.

You’ll Learn

  • Gain tools to redefine your life path
  • Learn how to make life decisions in a systematic way
  • Understand how to align life and work views
  • Learn to see challenges as opportunities

Key Points

  • Apply Design Thinking to Life
  • Focus on Process, Not Goals
  • Prototyping for Life Decisions
  • Reframing Dysfunctional Beliefs
  • Lifeview and Workview Reflection
  • Energy Engagement Tracking
  • Crafting Your Life

Who’s it For

  • Career changers
  • Self-development enthusiasts
  • Students planning their future
  • People feeling stuck in life

About the author

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans are both Stanford University design educators. They co-founded the Stanford Life Design Lab, where they teach classes that apply design thinking to life and career decisions.