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Squiggly Careers

#168 How to design your work life

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Management, Careers, Business

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks episode Sarah interviews Bill Burnett and Dave Evans the authors of Design your Life and Design your Work Life. They discuss how we can all adopt a designer mindset and why reframing is a design superpower we can all learn. Sarah also shares some of her favourite tools and frameworks from the book including the 'maker mix' and the difference between the best theoretical option and best doable option. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Sarah Ellis and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. In this week's episode,

0:08.7

you'll hear my conversation with Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, the authors of designing your

0:13.6

work life. I was really looking forward to speaking to Bill and Dave as I've admired their work

0:18.4

since reading their first book, which was about designing your

0:21.2

life. And we've got lots in common, I think, with the work that they do. It's very practical,

0:27.6

action focus, lots of tools and techniques to try out. So I think if you like Squiggly

0:32.5

careers and Squiggly Career book, I think you'll like the work that they do. And where they're different to

0:38.4

us is that they take their expertise in design thinking and apply it to how we think about our

0:44.2

careers. So really they're borrowing from one world to benefit another. And I think that idea

0:49.2

works brilliantly. Those tools and techniques give us a really interesting way to think about

0:53.9

the work that we do.

0:55.5

So I hope you enjoy our conversation together. And remember if you'd like to delve a bit deeper

0:59.7

into any of the podcast topics, you can join us for PodPlus. Podplus is a 30 minute workshop

1:05.4

that we do every Thursday at 9 o'clock where we explore some of the tools and ideas in a bit more detail and visually

1:12.7

bring them to life and also it's an opportunity for you to meet other people who just love

1:17.3

learning and are part of the Squiggly Careers community. You can find all of the details for

1:22.1

Popplus on our Instagram page where we're just at Amazing If. So that's all for now.

1:26.6

I hope you enjoy the conversation and I'll be back at the end to talk about next

1:29.9

week's topic which I predict is going to be a popular one.

1:37.7

So Bill, Dave, thank you so much for joining us on the Squiggly Careers podcast.

1:42.0

I'm really delighted to be talking to you both today.

1:44.3

Thanks for the invitation. Great to be here. I just thought it'd be really interesting for our

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