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5 steps to designing the life you want | Bill Burnett | TEDxStanford

TEDx Talks · 11.4M views · 2017-05-19 · 25:21

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TEDxStanford talk by Bill Burnett, executive director of Stanford's design program, on applying design thinking to your own life and career. He offers five practical tips such as getting curious, talking to people and trying things.

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HN recommends it as a short intro to the Designing Your Life approach when people ask about career direction and finding meaningful work.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2017–2022

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JSeymourATL · 2021-03 · Strong recommendation

> But who is “your” company and how do we pick the “niche”? Turns out, this is a common problem. Friendly Challenge: imagine 3 very different future niches for your team. Leveraging your interests, experience/expertise. Mix in the Clients you'll serve, Products you build, and Problems you solve. Each version would have a 5 year plan. Start a discussion -- which one energizes your team? More on this subject by the authors of Design Your Life > [VIDEO] Highly recommend their book! PM me if you want to discuss.

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samh748 · 2022-04 · Recommendation

A great great book that helped me with this: Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans ( [LINK] ). I first got exposed to it during a career navigation workshop that showed us this video: [VIDEO] They also published a follow-up called Designing Your Work Life but I haven't read that one.

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JSeymourATL · 2021-06 · Recommendation

Turns out, the most interesting design problem is designing your life. Bill Burnett has a brilliant book on the subject. > [VIDEO]

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