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Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
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“Stop Searching for Your Passion and Start Designing Your Life”
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Title: Designing Your Life
Author: Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
Category: Career Growth, Mindfulness & Wellbeing, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Focus, Habits & Productivity
What if you stopped trying to find your passion and started designing your life instead? Sam and Sophie sit with that question, because the pressure to discover a single perfect path is exhausting and, as it turns out, completely backward.
They walk through Bill Burnett and Dave Evans' design-thinking framework: the Health, Work, Play, and Love dashboard, the Odyssey Plan for imagining three versions of your future, and the Good Time Journal that reveals what actually energizes you. The pair land on prototyping—small experiments that replace big leaps—and the reframe that failure is just data.
If you've ever felt stuck in a career or life rut, this episode names the real problem (you're trying to solve life instead of design it) and gives you a practical way out. The takeaway: there's not one perfect life waiting for you—there are many good ones, and you build them through small experiments.
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Chapters
00:00The Problem With Finding Your Passion01:23The Health Work Play Love Dashboard02:18The Odyssey Plan And Prototyping03:43Gravity Problems And Coherence04:39Takeaway: Design, Don't Decide
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