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

ultimately it depends on the double bottom line: intention and attention. Do you really intend to do it? Are you willing to give it the attention it requires?

1. Empathize. This is where it starts. When you design, you’re not primarily doing it for yourself; you’re doing it with other people’s needs and desires in mind.

Falling in love is heavily reliant on projection, while a sound marriage is relatively free of projection.

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

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.

Design thinking emphasizes that you always make sure you are working on the real problem.

tells us. Instead of following the normal course of his profession, Irwin followed his curiosity and created a unique path of exploration and wonderment that provided a life force based on self-expression.

Experience has shown me that one of the main causes of losing sleep over a problem is that we think we are dealing with a question when in fact we are dealing with an answer (a solution) that turns out not to be a good fit to our actual problem. A way around this dilemma is to ask, “What would it do for me if I solved this problem?” The answer to t

At the heart of the course is a self-selected term project: students must either do something they have wanted to do but never done, or handle something that is a problem in their lives. I am available to discuss their choices.