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Designing Your Life
- Narrated by: Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Designing Your Life
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Publisher's Summary
Whether you're 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question: 'what do I want to be when I grow up?'
In Designing Your Life, Silicon Valley design innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans use their expertise to help you work out what you want - and how to get it. Their phenomenally successful Life Design course has been tried and tested by thousands of people, from students to midcareer professionals to retirees contemplating whole new futures.
Now in audiobook form, their simple method will teach you how to use basic design tools to create a life that will work for you. Using lots of real-life stories and proven techniques like reframing, prototyping and mind-mapping, you will learn how to build your way forwards, step by positive step, to a life that's better by a design of your own making. Because a well-designed life means a life well lived.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Jules
- 08-11-2020
Fabulous * Practical and comprehensive
These guys know exactly what they’re talking about and how to deliver successful strategies for anyone facing the “What should I do with my life?’ question.
So easy to listen to and fun to implement. 👏
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- Anonymous User
- 13-08-2019
Look at your life in a whole new perspective
I read so many self-help books but this one is different, so different that I wouldn't even call it self help. The authors help you reflect on your life from a logical design perspective, rather than looking to spirituality and philosophy to design your life, this book teaches you that you don't have one life but many infinite lives you can choose.
Highly recommend to absolutely everyone!
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- Anonymous User
- 13-07-2018
If only I had heard this at half my age!
Simply the most intelligent and fascinating Audio Book. Bill & Dave would appeal to such a wide audience with their step by step approach to help us in answering some of lifes 'very tricky questions'. I am listening to this for the third time in two weeks as I easily pick something else up each time. Design wisdom that I truly needed and have already began to put into play. THANKYOU for extending this outside of the realms of University lecture and enabling this to be part of Audible's fabulous offerings.
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- Grant
- 25-02-2023
Great read
Well written book with helpful, practical and powerful suggestions on design a rewarding life - nice
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- Robert
- 04-07-2017
very helpful
This has given me a way to rebuild my life from a very bad place
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- Gitana
- 11-09-2023
Great stories and tools
Really liked life design stories that the authors present and give the tools how to do it yourself.
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- Ianmhodge
- 14-01-2017
Stimulating, inspiring and highly digestible.
Would you consider the audio edition of Designing Your Life to be better than the print version?
I have only listened to the audio version and will be using the print version as an ongoing resource.
What other book might you compare Designing Your Life to, and why?
Designing Your Life inspired me this year the way A Beautiful Constraint inspired me in 2016. Both strongly academically based, yet highly pragmatically pitched; multiple case studies added credibility throughout, and the product of mature collaboration.
Which character – as performed by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans – was your favourite?
Bill and Dave offer complementary styles and as we worked through the book I started getting excited as I approached each new Chapter, presented alternately by the authors, in anticipation of reconnecting with my increasingly familiar author/friends. Dave's sense of humour colours every sentence without compromising the gravitas of the content. Bill's slightly more monotonic and steady delivery adds a sense of thoughtful seriousness to the mix. Despite the swapping for each chapter, continuity is maintained faultlessly and the sense of collaboration is constant.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
The emotional reaction was not one of sadness or ecstasy as in a "laugh or cry" response, Moreso one of exhilaration and enthusiasm about a newly discovered approach to career and life development.
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- Reese
- 04-07-2021
Some good practical advice
it has a few good pointers that might help you to shape a better mindset when dealing with life's adversities, definitely worth while to go through the exercises, recommend to people who are looking for a change in their life / career but don't know where to start.
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- LS
- 11-10-2021
Great book!
I really enjoyed listening to it. Great tools that everyone can implement immediately. Highly recommended to everyone that is looking for a change. Any change.
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- Merc Moldrich
- 04-02-2020
I keep coming back
The writers/narrators are entertaining, knowledgeable, good story tellers and engaging. Loved it.
I keep coming back to it as the subject matter is easy to be understand and easy to apply.
Highly recommended
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