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

Designers Create Worlds And Solve Problems Using Design Thinking. Look Around Your Office Or Home -- At The Tablet Or Smartphone You May Be Holding Or The Chair You Are Sitting In. Everything In Our Lives Was Designed By Someone. And Every Design Starts With A Problem That A Designer Or Team Of Designers Seeks To Solve. In This Book, Bill Burnett And Dave Evans Show Us How Design Thinking Can Help Us Create A Life That Is Both Meaningful And Fulfilling, Regardless Of Who Or Where We Are, What We Do Or Have Done For A Living, Or How Young Or Old We Are. The Same Design Thinking Responsible For Amazing Technology, Products, And Spaces Can Be Used To Design And Build Your Career And Your Life, A Life Of Fulfillment And Joy, Constantly Creative And Productive, One That Always Holds The Possibility Of Surprise. Introduction: Life By Design -- Start Where You Are -- Building A Compass -- Wayfinding -- Getting Unstuck -- Design Your Lives -- Prototyping -- How Not To Get A Job -- Designing Your Dream Job -- Choosing Happiness -- Failure Immunity -- Building A Team -- Conclusion: A Well Designed Life. Bill Burnett And Dave Evans. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 235-238).