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Designing Your Life
ME104B Stanford Design Program
Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
(and some fantastic facilitators)
exercise: I know it when… what do you see?
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a Dalmatian
what do you see?
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an old car
where’s Waldo?
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where’s Waldo?
where’s Waldo?
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where’s Waldo?
debrief
• How are the ink dot puzzles different from the “where’s Waldo?”
• Which is more like finding your place in the world?
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remember arriving…
… after you got into college,
what did everyone say to you?
“Oh how wonderful! These are ...!
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… the best years of your life!” !
what does this sound like on campus?
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Integrate your with your
Provide and a
Position you
Develop lifelong practices
to help build it
You are here!
A seminar designed to…
a different kind of course description
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what’s going on?
what’s going on?
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what’s going on? NY Times
Magazine 8.22.10
what’s going on?
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what’s going on?
What’s going on?
And your distress is deepened by an old idea that, if you did things right, you would have everything settled once and for all by twenty-five or so.
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Life’s Seasons (stage theory)
ADOLESCENCE
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY BUILDING
MIDLIFE PASSAGE
MIDDLE AGE
GOLD WATCH
GOLDEN YEARS
MALE LONGEVITY
FEMALE LONGEVITY
source: Dept. of Commerce - 1990’s, New Passages, by Gail Sheehy
30-55
50+
60-75
70-85
84
81
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12-21+ 13-17
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Life’s Seasons (stage theory)
ADOLESCENCE
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY BUILDING
MIDLIFE PASSAGE
MIDDLE AGE
GOLD WATCH
GOLDEN YEARS
MALE LONGEVITY
FEMALE LONGEVITY
source: Dept. of Commerce - 1990’s, New Passages, by Gail Sheehy
30-55
50+
60-75
70-85
84
81
55
Odyssey Years
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Life’s Seasons (stage theory)
ADOLESCENCE
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY BUILDING
MIDLIFE PASSAGE
MIDDLE AGE
GOLD WATCH
GOLDEN YEARS
MALE LONGEVITY
FEMALE LONGEVITY
source: Dept. of Commerce - 1990’s, New Passages, by Gail Sheehy
30-55
50+
60-75
70-85
84
81
55
Odyssey Years
Career #1 Encore Career
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Whats’ going on?
George Valliant
Grant Study
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Welcome to your Odyssey Years !
Take the adventure in hand and head out !
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what is design thinking?
a process
design thinking?
a process
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what is design thinking?
an integrative methodology
a way of seeing things differently
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what is design thinking?
RE-FRAMING
CURIOSITY
point of view
what is design thinking?
a good approach to wicked problems – like designing your life
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Major-Career Linkage
OUTBOUND
Major-Career Linkage
INBOUND
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Major-Career Linkage
INBOUND
mind mapping
• start with the topic you wish to map and write its name in the center of your page
• from this point draw a line and write down the first thing that comes to mind
• do this 4-7 times from the center point • from each of these topics draw a line and
write down the first thing that comes to mind
• do this 3-5 times from each topic • from each of these…continue as instructed
above.
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exercise #3 • make a mind map about your digital camera
design problem:
• Create a new kind of digital camera.
• combine 2+ things from periphery of your mind map
• use an unusual combination of things
• your invention has to be novel, but it need not be practical
• your invention should be useful to someone
• Deliverable: A 60 second description of your invention
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Discovery & Support Practices, Discernment, Mentors, Community
course - framework
Meaning Making POV, Workview, Worldview
Discovery & Support Practices, Discernment, Mentors, Community
Meaning Making POV, Workview, Worldview
what do we get?
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questions?
if we had a class like this, just for you,
what questions would it answer ?