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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Burnett and Evans on designing a meaningful life

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Careers, Business

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

For this US holiday week, we’ve grabbed a team favorite from the archives: Jessi’s conversation with Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, Stanford professors and authors of Designing Your Work Life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:34.0

Hey, it's Jesse. Here in the United States it's Thanksgiving week, and we're off.

0:38.0

So we've dipped into the archives to bring you one of my favorite episodes.

0:41.0

It features two guys who believe that design thinking can change our work lives. For the better. Enjoy.

0:47.0

From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill,

0:53.0

and this is Hello Monday, our show about the changing nature of work

0:56.5

and how that work is changing us.

0:58.5

Early in my conversation with today's guests,

1:01.8

I asked whether they thought it was enough to be

1:04.0

chasing happiness. Is happiness a good life goal? And maybe we all know this the

1:09.7

short answer is not really. Chasing happiness puts us on a hedonic treadmill where nothing is ever enough.

1:16.0

What we are really looking for is a life that's kind of full of life and full of thriving.

1:21.0

That's Bill Burnett.

1:22.0

So it's really about being more human. And that's Bill Burnett. So it's really about being more human.

1:24.0

And that's Dave Evans.

1:25.0

Bill and Dave are professors at Stanford and they teach a course on designing your life.

1:29.0

It's wildly popular.

1:31.0

I think you'll get a sense of why in today's episode.

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