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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's tip comes from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans book, Designing Your Life, which is about using design principles to craft the life you want.

They suggest using the design technique of prototyping to get insight into whether you want

to pursue a particular life option.

If you're pondering a big move in 2020,

professionally or personally, your best bet might be to start small. Here's what I mean.

According to Burnett and Evans, designers don't think their way forward.

Designers build their way forward.

They create a prototype, which is a simplified model, to see how well a given idea will work in practice.

Just like you'd pilot a new feedback system with one team,

before trying it on the whole organization.

Prototyping a big move you're considering can help you see what the option would be like

before you commit to it.

Here's why prototypes work.

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