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Stanford University

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

Stanford University via YouTube

Overview

Explore design thinking principles to build a well-lived, joyful life in this Stanford webinar presented by Bill Burnett, Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford University. Learn strategies to apply design thinking to your life, methods for aligning your "life" views with your "work" views, and tools to understand what gives you energy and what drains you. Discover how to reframe ideas that are holding you back and apply proven design-thinking principles like prototyping and bias-for-action to answer the question "What should I do with the rest of my life?" The webinar covers topics such as finding your passion, understanding flow, building your way through challenges, and exploring the relationship between money and happiness. Gain insights from Burnett's experience in start-ups, Fortune 100 companies, and his work at Stanford's d.school to apply innovative problem-solving techniques to personal and professional development.

Syllabus

Intro
Design Thinking
Design Your Life Lab
About Designing Your Life
Whats Your Passion
Design Thinking Model
Flow
The Flow Zone
Finding Yourself in Your Career
Flow Journal
Energy
Engagement Energy
Gravity Problems
Accept
The future is unknowable
Building your way
cautionary stories
Im stuck
Do I want this
What is possible
Narrative residence
Takeaways
Questions
Money
Money and Happiness
Feedback and Testing

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Stanford Online

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