Who you are defines how you build.

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Thanks for tuning into this special New Year's episode of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.

We're not just celebrating a new year,

but a whole new decade. To start the 2020s off on the right foot, we're re-releasing

a truly inspiring talk from 2017 featuring Stanford Life Design Lab co-founder Dave Evans.

At Apple, Dave led the team that designed the original mouse. And in this

episode, he talks about how students, professionals, and really anybody can apply design thinking

to unique and sometimes messy problems of life itself. Here's Dave. So we're here to talk about this designing, how design thinking might apply to your life.

That's not starting a company, but you know, 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, we're not 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.

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