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polanabear 's review for:
Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You
by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
3.5 star
The summation of a Stanford course, it frames common sense advice from a "design" angle. The advice themselves are pretty standard, such as "be immune to negative emotions associated with failure", but there are some very good questions the authors pose, which I think every person should consider spending few minutes answering.
This includes:
Workview:
Why work? What does work mean? What defines good work for you?
Lifeview:
What is the meaning of life, what is the relationship between individual and others?
How do workview and lifeview complement and clash?
What actvities bring you 1. engagement 2. energy (some activities may increase one but deplete the other)
Design 3 lives for yourself
1. the thing that you do now, and how that will likely progress in 5, 10, 20 years time
2. what you would do if 1. and anything similar to 1. went away and didn't come back.
3. what you would do if money and image were no object.
Some other chapters were devoted to topics such as networking (to think of it as a noun - to be in a community of people who are connected to each other via specialty/interests)
Don't fret decisions. Make a decision and let go.
Failure immunity.
The summation of a Stanford course, it frames common sense advice from a "design" angle. The advice themselves are pretty standard, such as "be immune to negative emotions associated with failure", but there are some very good questions the authors pose, which I think every person should consider spending few minutes answering.
This includes:
Workview:
Why work? What does work mean? What defines good work for you?
Lifeview:
What is the meaning of life, what is the relationship between individual and others?
How do workview and lifeview complement and clash?
What actvities bring you 1. engagement 2. energy (some activities may increase one but deplete the other)
Design 3 lives for yourself
1. the thing that you do now, and how that will likely progress in 5, 10, 20 years time
2. what you would do if 1. and anything similar to 1. went away and didn't come back.
3. what you would do if money and image were no object.
Some other chapters were devoted to topics such as networking (to think of it as a noun - to be in a community of people who are connected to each other via specialty/interests)
Don't fret decisions. Make a decision and let go.
Failure immunity.