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What if you designed your life the same way experts design products?
Bill Burnett is the Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford, where he got his BS and MS in Product Design. In his career, he designed everything from laptops at Apple to Star Wars toys. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents. He also gave a talk to TedXStanford that has over a million views. After you listen – go find it. Google Bill Burnett Designing your life ted talk – you’ll love it.
Bill Burnett is the Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford, where he got his BS and MS in Product Design. In his career, he designed everything from laptops at Apple to Star Wars toys. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents. He also gave a talk to TedXStanford that has over a million views. After you listen – go find it. Google Bill Burnett Designing your life ted talk – you’ll love it.
The heart of our conversation today is centered on the theme of his book, co-authored with Dave Evans its called “Designing your life”.
Bill talks pointedly about how to design a life you’d want to live, and how important our framing of failure is to that process. He distinguishes between several categories of botches -- which ones to work through, which ones to work around, and which ones to just let go.