Designing Your Life How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

Life has questions. They have answers Learn how to find a fulfilling career learn how to better navigate life s big moment decisions and kill your wicked problems dead.
The New York Times
 
The prototype for a happy life Burnett and Evans show how to apply Stanford s famous design principles to finding your place in the world, as a recent graduate or mid-career.
NPR s Brian Lehrer

Designing Your Life walks readers through the process of building a satisfying, meaningful life by approaching the challenge the way a designer would. Experimentation. Wayfinding. Prototyping. Constant iteration. You should read the book. Everyone else will.
Daniel Pink, bestselling author of Drive

This [is] the career book of the next decade and . . . the go-to book that is read as a rite of passage whenever someone is ready to create a life they love.
David Kelley, Founder of IDEO
 
An empowering book based on their popular class of the same name at Stanford University . . . Perhaps the book s most important lesson is that the only failure is settling for a life that makes one unhappy. With useful fact-finding exercises, an empathetic tone, and sensible advice, this book will easily earn a place among career-finding classics.
Publishers Weekly