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

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While it was informative to read about half of the tips in this book, and filled with advice I've also heard from recruiters, it was a slog to finish and I ended up taking almost a six month break before I could work my way through the last half. school classes at Stanford, where graduate students create teams of business, law, engineering, education, and medical students that come up with breakthrough innovations all the time. While it can apply to other areas, the majority of the book focused on career applications which is practical, since the majority of us tend to spend most of our time at work.

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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.It’s helpful for brainstorming your “life design”, but it also feels like a jumble of random blog entries.

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Even though I'm not looking for a new job, I found plenty of useful exercises to sink my teeth into, allowing me to imagine my way forward into new approaches within the job I do have. Thus the plus value here could be that it is based on a college course, so maybe it's good for young people like Stanford students, except that I don't know that Jacques Cousteau, for example, is especially of the moment. But working on shifting your mindset into constantly designing your life will help squash those feelings. In addition to his duties at Stanford, he is a on the Board of VOZ (pronounced “VAWS – it means voice in Spanish) a social responsible high fashion startup and advises several Internet start-up companies. It roughly follows the design thinking process, which involves immersing yourself in the current state of things, defining the exact problem, brainstorming new ideas, then testing the best ideas out.

The starting point of almost every advice given here is that you're financially secure because the recommended steps involve unpaid efforts and quite a lot of time which is in most people's lives frankly unrealistic.