👨🏽‍🎨 Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life - David Evans & Bill Burnett

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans's Designing Your Life presents a framework for approaching life's challenges and opportunities using design thinking principles. The authors differentiate between engineering and design problems, advocating a flexible, iterative approach—prototyping—to navigate life's complexities rather than striving for a predetermined outcome. They introduce tools like the Life Design Dashboard and mind mapping to help readers identify their strengths, passions, and areas needing improvement. T he book emphasizes reframing limiting beliefs, embracing failure as a learning opportunity, and building a supportive community to achieve a well-designed, joyful life. Finally, it highlights the importance of discerningly choosing among options, using various ways of knowing to guide decisions and developing resilience in the face of setbacks.