Designing Your Life: For Fans of Atomic Habits
It’s a life in which who you are, what you believe, and what you do all line up together.
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Be Curious. Curiosity makes everything new. It invites exploration. It makes everything play. Most of all, curiosity is going to help you “get good at being lucky.” It’s the reason some
Dave Evans • Designing Your Life: For Fans of Atomic Habits
Prototyping the life design way is all about asking good questions, outing our hidden biases and assumptions, iterating rapidly, and creating momentum for a path we’d like to try out.
Dave Evans • Designing Your Life: For Fans of Atomic Habits
A Workview should address the critical issues related to what work is and what it means to you. It is not just a list of what you want from or out of work, but a general statement of your view of work. It’s your definition for what good work deserves to be. A Workview may address such questions as: • Why work? • What’s work for? • What does work
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Radical collaboration works on the principle that people with very different backgrounds will bring their idiosyncratic technical and human experiences to the team. This increases the chance that the team will have empathy for those who will use what they are designing, and that the collision of different backgrounds will generate truly unique
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“We teach how to use design to figure out what you want to be when you grow up.”
Dave Evans • Designing Your Life: For Fans of Atomic Habits
TRY STUFF HEALTH/WORK/PLAY/LOVE DASHBOARD 1. Write a few sentences about how it’s going in each of the four areas. 2. Mark where you are (0 to Full) on each gauge. 3. Ask yourself if there’s a design problem you’d like to tackle in any of these areas. 4. Now ask yourself if your “problem” is a gravity problem.
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In the United States alone, more than thirty-one million people between ages forty-four and seventy want what is often called an “encore” career—work that combines personal meaning, continued income, and social impact. Some of those thirty-one million have found their encore careers, and many others have no idea where to begin, and fear it’s too
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There are two elements to the Good Time Journal: 1. Activity Log (where I record where I’m engaged and energized) 2. Reflections (where I discover what I am learning)