Designing Your Life & Finding Your Talent — with Bill Burnett

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.4 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Bill Burnett, the co-author of the New York Times best-seller, “Designing Your Life,” and the Co-Director of the Life Design Lab at Stanford University, joins Scott to discuss the attributes of “design thinking,” understanding your talent, and what to do when you feel stuck. Scott opens by bringing on Robert Armstrong, the FT’s US financial commentator to discuss the latest around Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. Follow Robert on Twitter, @rbrtrmstrng. For more of Prof G’s thoughts on SVB’s fallout, check out our special Markets episode. Algebra of Happiness: nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:41.0	Welcome to the 241st episode of the PropG Pod. In today's episode, we speak with Bill Burnett, the co-author of the New York Times best selling,
1:55.2	designing your life and the co-director of the Life Design Lab at Stanford University.
2:00.7	We discussed with Bill the attributes of design thinking, understanding your talent, and what to do when you feel stuck.
2:07.5	Okay, what's happening? Well, the big news is obviously the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank.
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2:16.5	In about 40 hours, essentially collapsing and losing more than 40 billion in deposits.
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