Dave Evans: Designing Your Life
Good Life Project
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4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest, Dave Evans, is a lecturer at the famed Stanford d.School a theological scholar and management consultant. He is also a man on a mission to explore what it means to spend time designing your life.
As an early team-member at Apple, he led product marketing for the mouse and introduced laser printing to the masses.
He then joined gaming behemoth, Electronic Arts, as employee #2, before leaving to help start-up teams, corporate executives, non-profit leaders, and countless young adults build amazing ventures.
Along the way, he realized they were all asking the same question. “What should I do with my life?” Helping people get traction on that question finally took develop a groundbreaking course that applies design thinking to life, where he introduced the concept designing your life to students at Berkeley and then Stanford.
His latest book, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-lived, Joyful Life, walks you through the entire, step-by-step process.
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| 0:00.0 | So don't go, oh, find somebody who's successful and then do what they did. |
| 0:08.4 | Find somebody who's successful and happy and find out why did that succeed and why were |
| 0:13.7 | they happy. |
| 0:14.7 | Now learn from that and say, what if that is transferable to you and your situation? |
| 0:21.4 | My guest today is Dave Evans. |
| 0:23.7 | Dave is the co-creator and co-teacher of a one of the most popular courses at the Stanford |
| 0:29.5 | D School or Design School all about designing your life. |
| 0:34.0 | And he's taken this thing called this approach to problem solving to creating amazing solutions |
| 0:39.7 | called design thinking and apply it to the problem of figuring out what to do with your |
| 0:45.4 | life. |
| 0:46.4 | What do you hear for? |
| 0:47.6 | And they've been teaching this course for coming close to, I think about a decade now |
| 0:51.4 | at Stanford. |
| 0:52.9 | More and more people started asking them, hey, we're not in school and we're not students, |
| 0:56.3 | but we're really curious about what you're doing. |
| 0:59.1 | And they distilled the entire curriculum into a book, which is absolutely fascinating. |
| 1:03.7 | We kind of navigate that without talking all that much directly about it. |
| 1:07.3 | As we navigate Dave's story, his personal story, he came up actually in California thinking |
| 1:11.9 | he wanted to be a marine biologist as a kid. |
| 1:14.7 | Found out quickly that wasn't for him. |
| 1:17.0 | Somehow ended up becoming an engineer and then was on some of the early teams at Apple |
| 1:21.9 | and then electronic arts and navigated a really remarkable way finding jagged life that |
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