designing your life
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Applying Design Thinking principles to career and life
Sathish Seshadri
17 March, 2017
Designing Your Life
What we intend to cover…
• Why should we design our lives?
• What’s Design Thinking
• Why Design Thinking for life?
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain
What you study determines your future?What’s your goal?
Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?Life is not an equation to be solved.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
― Henry Ford
Problem Solving
• Ways of problem solving
• Engineering thinking
• Business thinking
• Design thinking
• Solving Wicked problems
• Success criteria is ambiguous and change in time.
• Once you have solved it you cant reuse
• Human problems
• Build our way forward
Designing your life
• Solve for Future that hasn’t occurred yet
• Somehow figure out the way forward
• Only way is to build your way forward and not analyze your way forward
• Define – problem find before we problem solve
• Do one step at a time to become a better version of you.
Designer Mindset
• Curiosity
• Reframing
• Mindfulness to the process – don’t get ahead of the moment
• Radically collaborate
• Bias towards action
• False best is the enemy of the available better
• There is more aliveness in us than what we could achieve in one lifetime