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Designing your life : how to build a well-lived, joyful life / Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: xxxi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781101875322 (hardcover)
  • 1101875321 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 650.1 23
LOC classification:
  • HF5381 .B7785 2016
  • HF5381 .B7785 2016
Contents:
Introduction: life by design -- Start where you are -- Building a compass -- Wayfinding -- Getting unstuck -- Design your lives -- Prototyping -- How not to get a job -- Designing your dream job -- Choosing happiness -- Failure immunity -- Building a team -- Conclusion: a well- designed life.
Summary: Outlines strategies for enabling a thriving life by incorporating "design thinking" habits that promote fulfillment and meaning by emulating the examples of the engineers of today's most popular technologies.

Includes bibliographic references and source notes.

Introduction: life by design -- Start where you are -- Building a compass -- Wayfinding -- Getting unstuck -- Design your lives -- Prototyping -- How not to get a job -- Designing your dream job -- Choosing happiness -- Failure immunity -- Building a team -- Conclusion: a well- designed life.

Outlines strategies for enabling a thriving life by incorporating "design thinking" habits that promote fulfillment and meaning by emulating the examples of the engineers of today's most popular technologies.

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