What do you think?
Rate this book
Summary of Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans: Book Summary Includes Analysis
Designing Your Life teaches you how to take a design approach towards your life, in order to live better in every way. Regardless of your past, your skills, and your failures, when you take a design approach to your life you will learn how to evaluate your challenges, reframe your thinking, and try solutions as you find what works for you. This new way of living takes the pressure off needing to know exactly what you want and how to get it. Instead, you try options that seem interesting, enjoying the journey, and adding and subtracting choices as you design your life. It leads to a dynamic, energetic, and fulfilling life where you are always growing and changing for the better.
©2016 FlashBooks LLC (P)2016 FlashBooks LLC
©2016 FlashBooks LLC (P)2016 FlashBooks LLC
Audiobook
Published December 12, 2016
1 person is currently reading
4 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
June 7, 2017
Life design, 5 simple things to do:
(1) be curious (curiosity)
(2) try stuff (bias to action)
(3) reframe problems (reframing)
(4) know it’s a process (awareness)
(5) ask for help (radical collaboration)
*Problem finding
In design thinking, we put as much emphasis on problem finding as we do on problem solving.
*Dysfunctional Beliefs
Dysfunctional Belief: I finished designing my life; the hard work is done, and everything will be great.
Reframe: You never finish designing your life — life is a joyous and never-ending design project of building your way forward.
*Gravity Problems
Like gravity, these are issues that cannot be solved. In life design, if it’s not actionable, then it’s just not a useful problem. The only authentic response is acceptance.
*Compass built of Workview and Lifeview
Workview:
- Why work?
- What’s work for?
- What does work mean?
- How does it relate to the individual, others, society?
- What defines good or worthwhile work?
- What does money have to do with it?
- What do experience, growth, and fulfillment have to do with it?
Lifeview defines “matters of ultimate concern.”
- Why are we here?
- What is the meaning or purpose of life?
- What is the relationship between the individual and others?
- Where do family, country, and the rest of the world fit in?
- What is good, and what is evil?
- Is there a higher power, God, or something transcendent, and if so, what impact does this have on your life?
- What is the role of joy, sorrow, justice, injustice, love, peace, and strife in life?
(1) be curious (curiosity)
(2) try stuff (bias to action)
(3) reframe problems (reframing)
(4) know it’s a process (awareness)
(5) ask for help (radical collaboration)
*Problem finding
In design thinking, we put as much emphasis on problem finding as we do on problem solving.
*Dysfunctional Beliefs
Dysfunctional Belief: I finished designing my life; the hard work is done, and everything will be great.
Reframe: You never finish designing your life — life is a joyous and never-ending design project of building your way forward.
*Gravity Problems
Like gravity, these are issues that cannot be solved. In life design, if it’s not actionable, then it’s just not a useful problem. The only authentic response is acceptance.
*Compass built of Workview and Lifeview
Workview:
- Why work?
- What’s work for?
- What does work mean?
- How does it relate to the individual, others, society?
- What defines good or worthwhile work?
- What does money have to do with it?
- What do experience, growth, and fulfillment have to do with it?
Lifeview defines “matters of ultimate concern.”
- Why are we here?
- What is the meaning or purpose of life?
- What is the relationship between the individual and others?
- Where do family, country, and the rest of the world fit in?
- What is good, and what is evil?
- Is there a higher power, God, or something transcendent, and if so, what impact does this have on your life?
- What is the role of joy, sorrow, justice, injustice, love, peace, and strife in life?
Displaying 1 of 1 review