The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life

Design thinking is a set of general practices a group of us has developed over the years that are effective in solving design challenges.

students are taught to use a problem-solving process (we called it a design process) with the acronym ETC. The first step is to express an idea: come up with a trial solution. The next step is to test the idea: see what about it works and what does not. The third step is to cycle: use what you have learned to come up with a modified or new idea—tha

the design thinking methodology: manifest a bias toward action, and don’t be afraid of failure.

his classic essay “Buddhist Economics,” Schumacher points out that work serves to feed our basic need for association with other people. In fact, work supplies several of our basic human needs:5 1. It gives people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties. 2. It enables people to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining with others in a com

To experience the process of walking around the lamppost, think of a problem you have been losing sleep over. This should be something that keeps bothering you and is directly related to your life, your relationships, or your job, not something abstract or global such as how to achieve world peace. Write this item down as a short, simple how-do-I q

I have found that project-based learning greatly increases intrinsic motivation. My experience with student motivation comes mainly from my experience at an elite university.

Make a pact with yourself to not use reasons unless you have to. This is actually an incredibly empowering position to come from. Be confident enough in your actions not to need to explain yourself. Trust yourself and act.

Most people have a cognitive bias called functional fixedness that causes them to see objects only in their normal context.

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