Hey you, I'm Andrew Seaman. Do you want a new job or do you want to move forward in your career?

Well, you should listen to my weekly show called Get Hired with Andrew Seaman.

We talk about it all, and it's Hemphill, and this is Hello Monday,

our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us. Early in my conversation with

today's guests I asked whether they thought it was enough to be chasing

happiness. Is happiness a good life goal? And maybe we all know this, the short answer is not really.

Chasing happiness puts us on a hedonic treadmill,

where nothing is ever enough.

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

That's Bill Burnett.

So it's really about being more human.

And that's Dave Evans.

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

It's wildly popular.

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

Bill and Dave don't sugarcoat it.

To them, we are all just making it up as we go along. But they're designers and

they believe there are tools we can use to make it up better. We can do more than try to

be happy. We can find our way to designing lives and in particular designing work lives that are meaningful to each of us.

Here's Bill and Dave. So you teach this class, tell us about this class.

Well, designing your life at Stanford, you know, which the first inauguration of which was in the

spring of 2010. I had taught at Cal Berkeley. I had a class called Finding Your

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