Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-lived, Joyful Life (ALFRED A. KNOPF)

Burnett, Bill

ISBN 10: 0451494083 / ISBN 13: 9780451494085

Published by Alfred a Knopf, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-lived, Joyful Life (ALFRED A. KNOPF)
• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451494083
• ISBN 13: 9780451494085
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very good

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Synopsis

At last, a book that shows you how to build-design-a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage 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. "Designing Your Life walks readers through the process of building a satisfying, meaningful life by approaching the challenge the way a designer would. Experimentation. Wayfinding. Prototyping. Constant iteration. You should read the book. Everyone else will." -Daniel Pink, bestselling author of Drive "This [is] the career book of the next decade and . . . the go-to book that is read as a rite of passage whenever someone is ready to create a life they love." -David Kelley, Founder of IDEO "An empowering book based on their popular class of the same name at Stanford University . . . Perhaps the book's most important lesson is that the only failure is settling for a life that makes one unhappy. With useful fact-finding exercises, an empathetic tone, and sensible advice, this book will easily earn a place among career-finding classics." -Publishers Weekly