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Designing Your Life

Designing Your Life

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Last discussed Oct 1, 2026

A book by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans that provides tools and methodologies for designing a fulfilling career and life, including techniques like the Odyssey Plan.

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Adam Mastroianni
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Praised: Directive, with flowcharts and interview tips vs: Contrasted with Man's Search for Meaning as the directive end of the spectrum

"Then you have very directive books like Designing Your Life, also really good, like flowcharts and interview tips."

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"Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, Stanford educators behind Designing Your Life, joined Scott for a live taping of conversations and offered a simple test for choosing someone at the beginning."

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"Stanford educators and bestselling authors of Designing Your Life and most recently, How to Live a Meaningful Life."

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Bill Burnett
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Used for: Applying design thinking to building a meaningful life and career Praised: Sold two million books; based on research and taught at Stanford

"Stanford educators and best-selling authors of Design Your Life and most recently, How to Live a Meaningful Life."

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Dave Evans
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"So Bill and I looked at what people were struggling and what we might have to say through the lens of design thinking, that's the platform we sort of are allowed to speak from."

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Ali Abdaal
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"there is a technique from the guys who wrote this book, Bill Bernard and Dave Evans"

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