Book Byte #336 "Designing Your Life" by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
📣 Curious Quotes from the Author
“The five mind-sets you are going to learn in order to design your life are curiosity, bias to action, reframing, awareness, and radical collaboration.”
“A well-designed life is a life that is generative—it is constantly creative, productive, changing, evolving, and there is always the possibility of surprise.”
“Designers don’t think their way forward. Designers build their way forward.”
“Work is fun when you are actually leaning into your strengths and are deeply engaged and energized by what you’re doing.”
“The key is not to get stuck on something that you have effectively no chance of succeeding at.”
“Dysfunctional Belief: Happiness is having it all. Reframe: Happiness is letting go of what you don’t need.”
“Living coherently doesn't mean everything is in perfect order all the time. It means you are living in alignment with your values and have not sacrificed your integrity along the way.”
“For most people, passion comes after they try something, discover they like it, and develop mastery - not before. To put it more succinctly: passion is the result of a good life design, not the cause.”
“It doesn’t matter where you come from, where you think you are going, what job or career you have had or think you should have. You are not too late, and you’re not too early.”
📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea
Design-thinking techniques to assist people in creating a happy and purposeful existence. The book highlights that there is no one "right path" in life; rather, you should try, experiment, and prototype several choices to see what suits you the best. Identifying personal values, rephrasing issues, accepting failure as a teaching opportunity, and generating and testing ideas with tools like mind mapping and journaling are important steps. In order to create a life that is in line with their interests, abilities, and goals, it exhorts readers to develop curiosity, make connections with others, and concentrate on doable tasks.
Until Tomorrow,
Jason (Founder Club255)