27. My Life is My Biggest Design Project: “Design the Life You Love” - Ayse Birsel

Send us Fan MailIndustrial designer Ayse Birsel is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People and is on the Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of organizations. She is the author of Design the Life You Love. She believes our life is our biggest design project and gives lectures and workshops to help individuals and companies to design the life they love and live it. In this episode of the Sparks Gratitude Podcast, Ayse explains how life is the biggest design project we have ever undertaken, full of possibilities and obstacles. Learn how the design process can be appliedto our own life. She talks about the value deconstruction, reconstruction, and point of view. We talk about giving ourselves permission to be playful to find creativity and a willingness to experiment with ideas. We discuss the significance of values, which serve as the cornerstone of our way of living. Ayse Birsel's website:https://www.aysebirsel.com/Chapter:00:00 - Intro02:06 - About life in Paris and New York04:22 - From Pessimism to Optimism 06:15 - Ayse Birsel: Creating “Design the Life You Love”10:34 - Design Process: Deconstruction and Reconstruction 13:42 - How our life is our biggest design project 18:03 - Explained the Point of view21:17 - Tools in Permission to be playful 25:05 - Importance of having and discovering what those values are in building our life30:09 - Life lessons from Karate 34:26- Marshall Goldsmith: Expressing gratitude for younger self and future self 37:17 - Astronauts of long life | The four pillars of life - Love, Purpose, Well-Being and Friendship 40:40 - Design the Long Life You Love | became a best seller in the love category Also Mentioned in this Episode:Chester Elton Episode: https://youtu.be/qryGI0zS0mg Follow Sparks of Gratitude:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sparksofgratitude/?hl=enTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sparksofgratitudeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/sparksofgratitudeWebsite: https://www.sparksofgratitude.comDo you know someone who we should have on the show? Email us:[email protected]