Designing Your Life: How To Build A Well-Lived, Joyful Life - Bill Burnett And Dave Evans

"Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life" by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans is a self-help book that applies design thinking principles to the challenges of creating a fulfilling life. The authors, both Stanford professors, draw on their experience teaching a popular course on life design to offer practical tools and strategies for navigating life's inevitable transitions and uncertainties. They challenge the traditional notion of having a fixed "calling" or "passion," instead encouraging readers to embrace a mindset of curiosity, experimentation, and iteration. The book introduces design thinking concepts such as prototyping, reframing, and ideation, demonstrating how they can be applied to life's big questions. Burnett and Evans provide exercises and activities to help readers identify their values, explore different possibilities, and create actionable plans for building a life that aligns with their goals and aspirations. They emphasize the importance of embracing failure as a learning opportunity and cultivating a growth mindset. "Designing Your Life" aims to help readers overcome limiting beliefs, break free from conventional expectations, and create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling.