Pushkin.

Let's be real for a second.

The world feels pretty overwhelming right now.

Lots of us are feeling exhausted and despondent.

We spend our days grinding at work

and then trying to zone out when we get out of work, which often means scrolling endlessly

just to unwind. And if that sounds familiar, you might be wondering quietly to yourself,

is this all there is? How do I feel better when the world feels so blah? What if there was a way to hit

the reset button on how you experience life? To see the world with fresh eyes like you did as a

child, when everything felt alive, full of possibility, and somehow a little magical? The mere fact

that anything exists at all is astonishing.

So just take a longer, deeper look into almost anything, and some wondrousness

might be available to you.

Well, in today's episode, the last one in our series on how to get unstuck in

26, we'll learn that this mindset can be within reach.

In fact, today's two guests will share their tips for how to design it.

Greetings. This is Dave Evans, the co-founder of the Stanford Life Design Lab. So glad to be here today

with Dr. Lori Santos and my dear partner, Bill Burnett. We've been teaching Life Design for 20-odd years now.

Hi, I'm Bill Burnett. I'm an adjunct professor at Stanford University teaching the

Designing Your Life series of classes. And now the co-author with my good friend Dave of a new book

called How to Live a Meaningful Life, Using Design Thinking to Unlock Purpose, Joy, and Flow every day.

You're going to live to hate that long a subtitle every time you have to say it on the

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