"Designing Your Life," a new and wildly popular course for Stanford juniors and seniors that is grounded in design thinking concepts and techniques. The course’s lessons gave him the perspective he needed to navigate decisions about life and work post graduation."
Standford: ME104B | Designing Your Life
"Here's what they learn: gratitude; generosity; self-awareness; adaptability.
All reinforced by design thinking-based tools, from a daily gratitude journal to a deck of cards featuring problem-solving techniques. In lieu of a final exam—the class is pass/fail—
students present three radically different five-year plans to their peers.
Alumni say they still refer back their "odyssey plans"—a term that Evans coined—
and revise them as their lives and careers progress."
and revise them as their lives and careers progress."
Stanford’s Dave Evans & Bill Burnett on Using Design Thinking to Address the “Wicked Problem” of Designing Your Life & Career | rethinked…*
Creative Decision-Making: https://vimeo.com/worldviewstanford/review/95827194/3c6c71dcae
There is already a "matching" course on MIT :)
- "- PASSION IS A CAPACITY THAT CAN BE DEVELOPED, NOT AN INHERENT ATTRIBUTE - The research says that maybe only two or three out of ten people actually have a passion that they’ve identified, that they can work into. We believe that actually, passion turns out to be what you develop after you find the things that you enjoy doing."
- - SHEDDING DYSFUNCTIONAL BELIEFS -
- - COUNSEL VS. ADVICE -
- - START WHERE YOU’RE AT -
- - BIAS TO ACTION & REFRAMING THE PROBLEM -
- - ON FIGURING OUT WHO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP -
- - NAVIGATING VS. WAY-FINDING -
- - COHERENCE -
- - ENCORE CAREER -
- - THE COURAGE TO ACCEPT THE TRUTH ABOUT YOURSELF -
Creative Decision-Making: https://vimeo.com/worldviewstanford/review/95827194/3c6c71dcae
There is already a "matching" course on MIT :)