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Today's guest is Dave Evans, who wants to help you design your life.

At Apple, he led the team that developed the original mouse, and later at Electronic Arts,

he became the company's first vice president of talent.

Now he helps organizations build creative environments and teaches in Stanford's Department

of Mechanical Engineering.

Here's Dave Evans.

So we're here to talk about this designing, how design thinking might apply to your life.

That's not starting a company, but managing your life if you're going to start a company

is a pretty challenging thing.

So what this thing is all about, first of all, Bill, run out my partner who is not here.

He's actually doing something similar to another building on the campus right now.

So 10 years ago, Bill and I got together, had lunch, started talking about this thing and said,

hey, let's do this in the summer of 2007.

And that turned into what is now called the Life Design Lab.

And if the Life Design Lab, our mission is very simple.

It is to apply the innovation principles of design thinking to the wicked problem of designing

your life at or after university.

That's a carefully crafted elevator pitch, all the colored words.

If you click on them, you get a white paper. Most people go, what does that really mean? That sounds great. That sounds

like a VC pitch. No, we teach the classes that help you figure out what you want to be when

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