Designing Your Life with Bill Burnett | RachReflects Episode 15
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Every person deserves to design a well-lived and joyful life with purpose and fulfilment. In this thought-provoking episode, I sit down with the renowned Bill Burnett - previously a Product Leader at Apple and designer of Star Wars toys to Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford and bestselling author of Designing Your Life and Designing Your Work life.
What does it mean to live a successful life? What are the most dangerous advices out there? What are the essential skills and characteristics necessary to thrive in today's ever-changing landscape? This is one episode filled with practical wisdom and actionable advice to help you design the life you truly desire!
Chapters
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 01:20 - Bill's intro on Designing Your Life
- 05:07 - The purpose driven generation and the Gen Z's approach to work life
- 07:30 - Key trends in the different generations today
- 10:51 - 2 dangerous advices in the world today
- 15:15 - How do we follow our passions?
- 19:05 - Bill's definition of a successful life
- 20:49 - Key skill and characteristic that is crucial today
- 23:03 - The importance of self-awareness and its impact
- 23:57 - Playing the infinite game
- 27:50 - Bill shares about fear setting and his own experience dealing with fears
- 30:18 - Building simple, atomic habits to reinvent our lives
- 33:15 - Outro
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