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Bill Burnett & Dave Evans, Designing Your Life.

William Burnett and David J. Evans, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, First edition (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016).

Premise: Design thinking can uncover better ways of living. 6C

Referencing notes.

  • Track failures to find learning opportunities.
  • Brainstorming.
  • Too many choices is effectively the same as none.
  • Tactics for reducing options toward a decision.
  • Tactics for making very hard decisions.
  • A good process for making decisions is much more important than most specific decisions.
  • Finite game versus infinite game are vantage points that shape one’s focus areas.
  • Life design is an empirical approach to fostering better life outcomes.
  • Designing your life methodology.
    • Surveying the state of one’s life suggests specific focus areas for improvement.
      • Gravity problems are problems with no practical solution.
    • Work and life ethos statements orient one to purpose or fundamental understanding.
      • A personal compass provides insight through comparison.
      • “Work” is anything we are committed to make happen.
    • Tracking one’s relationship with daily activities will show what one values.
    • An Odyssey Plan is a 5 year plan for a theoretically desired life that answers questions about the option.
    • Life decision options can be prototyped for validation and learning.
    • Life design artifacts roll experiential information into experimental analyses.
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