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#124 Dysfunctional Thinking and How to Be Happy: Using Design Thinking To Get Out Of Your Rut with Stanford Professor and Author Bill Burnett

December 17, 2017 By Jim Harshaw

Jim Harshaw interviews Stanford professor Bill Burnett, author of Designing Your Life (with co-author Dave Evans)Why following your passion doesn’t work. Today I bring you, Bill Burnett. After years of drawing cars and airplanes under his grandmother’s sewing machine, Bill went off to the Stanford and discovered that there were people in the world who did this kind of thing every day (without the sewing machine) and they were called designers.

Bill is the Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford. He got his BS and MS in Product Design at Stanford and has worked professionally on a wide variety of projects ranging from the award-winning Apple PowerBooks to the original Star Wars action figures. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents, and design awards for a variety of products including the first “slate” computer.

In addition to his duties at Stanford, advises several Internet start-up companies.

But first…. If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode– as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode– at JimHarshawJr.com/Action.

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Website: www.billburnett.net | www.designingyour.life
Twitter: www.twitter.com/wburnett
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SemHh0n19LA

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