Reframe Problems: Five Steps to Designing Your Life
In the video, Bill Burnett, co-founder of the Life Design Lab at Stanford, introduces the concept of design thinking, an innovation methodology used for over 50 years in product and service development, and suggests applying it to the design of one’s life. He also explores Dysfunctional Beliefs that hinder people:
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- Dysfunctional Belief 1: The idea that everyone has one true passion they should follow.
- Dysfunctional Belief 2: There is a set timeline for life’s achievements.
- Dysfunctional Belief 3: The belief in a single “best” version of oneself, implying a singular and linear life trajectory
Five Tips
- Connect the Dots: to create a meaningful life by aligning who you are, what you believe, and what you do.
- Gravity Problems: identify problems that cannot be changed and learn to work around them.
- Thought Experiment: Come up with three great five-year-from-now versions of yourself. Imagining these three different life plans can help people realize the breadth of possibilities.
- Prototyping Life: test out big decisions, before making drastic changes.
- Decision-Making: list options, narrow them down, choose wisely, and then move forward without looking back
