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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

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In Designing Your Life, Silicon Valley design innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans use their expertise to help you work out what you want – and how to get it. This exercise can reveal patterns that are helpful to keep in mind as you consider the next steps in your career. We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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These creative and thought provoking exercises allow the reader to reflect on their life and determine what they should do with their future. Our focus is mainly on jobs and careers, because, let’s face it, we spend most of the hours of our days, and the days of our lives, at work. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, also known as Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You, is a self-help and personal development book by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

The authors say that the process of reconciling Workview and Lifeview often leads to the biggest “aha” moments (page 37). Their phenomenally successful Life Design course has been tried and tested by thousands of people, from students to mid-career professionals to retirees contemplating a whole new future. Before Apple, we didn’t have laptops as we know them today, and so designers had to test, throw away, and tweak solutions until they hit the right one. However, this book is a framework, and I think with thoughtfulness can be used by people with spiritual beliefs or persuasions and catered to include those frameworks. The book walks you through a series of exercises that build on each other to help you build your ideal life.

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

If, instead of settling on one fixed dream for your life, you lean into life as an adventure of constant creation, you’re going to find much more satisfaction. We’ll explain a few simple ways to do this, but first you need to understand one really big point: Designers don’t think their way forward. The authors make the case that design skills such as reframing, prototyping and brainstorming can help us make better career and life choices, or undo bad choices before they do more harm.

Hundreds of successful student projects and innovative companies, such as D-Rev and Embrace,3 have come from this process, and are proof that collaboration is the way design gets done today. He directs the undergraduate and graduate program in design at Stanford, both interdepartmental programs between the Mechanical Engineering department and the Art department. Finally, we should always ask for help when we need it, because design is nothing if not a collaborative effort.

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Perhaps the book’s most important lesson is that the only failure is settling for a life that makes one unhappy.We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. Whether we’re 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up? This is done in the hopes that the reader gains a sense of what activities are important to them and which ones seem unnecessary. While I can come up with a few groups who might not benefit from this book, I would think in general most would take away something to help them in their approach to life.

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