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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
it. You didn’t know that you had a preference until an unwanted decision occurred as a fait accompli. Only after the choice was named did you become aware of your preference.
from Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Dave Evans
meghna added 8mo ago
The best time to get ready for step three is months or years before the choosing. That means the best time is right now—today is the best day to start making that investment.
from Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Dave Evans
meghna added 8mo ago
The key is to remember that imagined choices don’t actually exist, because they’re not actionable.
from Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Dave Evans
meghna added 8mo ago
So—we prototype to ask good questions, create experiences, reveal our assumptions, fail fast, fail forward, sneak up on the future, and build empathy for ourselves and others.
from Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Dave Evans
meghna added 8mo ago
The simplest and easiest form of prototyping is a conversation.
from Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Dave Evans
meghna added 8mo ago
Tip 1: Rewrite your résumé using the same words used in the job posting.
from Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Dave Evans
meghna added 8mo ago
now completely failure-immune. He’s not protected from the personal pain and loss of failure, but he’s immune from being misinformed by failure—he doesn’t ever believe that he is a failure or that failure defines him, or, in fact, that his failures were failures.
from Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Dave Evans
meghna added 8mo ago
In this way, you energize a very productive cycle of growth, naturally evolving from being, to doing, to becoming.
from Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Dave Evans
meghna added 8mo ago
but the point isn’t that he finally won—the point is how he kept running.
from Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Dave Evans
meghna added 8mo ago