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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
I wanted to like this book. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more and gotten more out of it if I had read the book with others to discuss and apply the material. Maybe I would have enjoy the book more if I took the time to do the projects and homework that the book laid out. I enjoyed listening to the first third, but then it got a little rough and then boring to follow along.
Even with all of that being said I’d love to join a workgroup to read and apply this book over s period of time with others.
Even with all of that being said I’d love to join a workgroup to read and apply this book over s period of time with others.
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Timely and helpful to me. Will revisit some of these exercises again!
Five good principles explained for a better life: Be Curious, Try Stuff, Refrain "Problems", It's a Process, Ask for Help
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This book is based on a course, "Life Design" reached by the Design Thinking Professor Bill Burnett in Standford - the school that has decades of experience with Design Thinking. Design thinking is a methodology for creative problem solving. It is proved successfully in designing Products and Services, but this book tries to teach you, how to apply it to Your Life, or any Problem that exist in your life. Well, not just any problem. The Design Thinking mindset requires that you find the right problem to work on - not mistake a possible solution for an end goal - and problem needs to be actionable to be worth working on it. The authors call such problems "gravity problems" and "anchor problems" - and give directions on how to avoid working on those, by applying "reframing".
I'm certified "Enterprise Desing Thinking Practitioner" for several years (it's a free certification from IBM) - and I really like Design Thinking. What I thought, listening to the book and reading the handouts was, that they do not really explain Design Thinking, but that this book is rather written for someone who is already familiar with the concept. And by reading the somewhat underwhelming reviews here on Goodreads, I clearly see a pattern, that those have not "gotten it" - and this is what is so special about this book. The special things are not the tools that authors offer - like making a journal, or doing interviews (as some sort of prototypes to your Ideas).
What special about this book is applying the Design Thinking Mindset to the Design on your Life as a Process. This comes with an iterative process - where you analyze where you are first, define problems, reframe it, find a multitude of possible solutions, make prototypes and test them and doing it all over again (because it is a process, not a solution). And all this comes together with assembling a design team, following the design thinking principle of radical co-creation.
This book seems to be quite popular with people who are looking to change their job or career, and the book gives plenty of examples and relatable stories about this area. On the same time, the book focus on the balance of the domains "work", "play", "love" and "health" - and can be applied to all of those areas at the same time, if you are taking on "designing your life" and not just "designing your job". The number of examples in those other areas are rather limited in the book, and this is why I only giving it four stars instead of five. (This, and because they missed to explain the mindset of Design Thinking so, that a newby could understand it).
The book is good, I am recommending it, especially to people who are already familiar with Design Thinking. And having said that, I am off to assemble a design team to work together over the couple of the coming weeks or months.
I'm certified "Enterprise Desing Thinking Practitioner" for several years (it's a free certification from IBM) - and I really like Design Thinking. What I thought, listening to the book and reading the handouts was, that they do not really explain Design Thinking, but that this book is rather written for someone who is already familiar with the concept. And by reading the somewhat underwhelming reviews here on Goodreads, I clearly see a pattern, that those have not "gotten it" - and this is what is so special about this book. The special things are not the tools that authors offer - like making a journal, or doing interviews (as some sort of prototypes to your Ideas).
What special about this book is applying the Design Thinking Mindset to the Design on your Life as a Process. This comes with an iterative process - where you analyze where you are first, define problems, reframe it, find a multitude of possible solutions, make prototypes and test them and doing it all over again (because it is a process, not a solution). And all this comes together with assembling a design team, following the design thinking principle of radical co-creation.
This book seems to be quite popular with people who are looking to change their job or career, and the book gives plenty of examples and relatable stories about this area. On the same time, the book focus on the balance of the domains "work", "play", "love" and "health" - and can be applied to all of those areas at the same time, if you are taking on "designing your life" and not just "designing your job". The number of examples in those other areas are rather limited in the book, and this is why I only giving it four stars instead of five. (This, and because they missed to explain the mindset of Design Thinking so, that a newby could understand it).
The book is good, I am recommending it, especially to people who are already familiar with Design Thinking. And having said that, I am off to assemble a design team to work together over the couple of the coming weeks or months.
hopeful
informative
reflective
I really loved this book, and am excited to re-read large portions of it as I try out the exercises. What I enjoyed the most about this book was how centered it was on action. It wasn't a book about leading a "successful" life that had a lot of memorable quotes but no actionable steps you could take - the book was entirely centered on action.
Listened to Audio. Would like to reread and do workbook exercises.