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Designing Your Life

ME104B
Stanford Design Program
Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
(and some fantastic facilitators)

exercise: I know it when

what do

you see?

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a Dalmatian

what do

you see?

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an old car

wheres Waldo?

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wheres Waldo?

wheres Waldo?

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wheres Waldo?

debrief
How are the ink dot puzzles different from the wheres Waldo?

Which is more like finding your place in the world?

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remember arriving

after you got into college,

what did everyone say to you?

Oh how wonderful! These are ...!

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the best years of your life!!

what does this sound like on campus?

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A seminar designed to
Integrate your

Provide

with your

and a

Position you

to help build it

You are here!

Develop lifelong practices

a different kind of course description

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whats
going on?

whats
going on?

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whats
going on?

NY Times
Magazine
8.22.10

whats
going on?

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whats
going on?

Whats
going on?
And your distress is deepened by an
old idea that, if you did things right,
you would have everything settled
once and for all by twenty-five or so.

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Lifes Seasons (stage theory)

ADOLESCENCE

MARRIAGE
AND FAMILY
BUILDING
MIDLIFE
PASSAGE

13-17

12-21+

30-55

50+

60-75

MIDDLE AGE
GOLD WATCH

55

GOLDEN
YEARS

70-85

MALE
LONGEVITY
FEMALE
LONGEVITY

81

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84

source: Dept. of Commerce - 1990s, New Passages, by Gail Sheehy

Lifes Seasons (stage theory)

ADOLESCENCE

MARRIAGE
AND FAMILY
BUILDING
MIDLIFE
PASSAGE

Odyssey Years
30-55

50+

60-75

MIDDLE AGE
GOLD WATCH

55

GOLDEN
YEARS
MALE
LONGEVITY
FEMALE
LONGEVITY

70-85

81

24

84

source: Dept. of Commerce - 1990s, New Passages, by Gail Sheehy

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Lifes Seasons (stage theory)

ADOLESCENCE

Odyssey Years

MARRIAGE
AND FAMILY
BUILDING
MIDLIFE
PASSAGE

30-55

50+

60-75

MIDDLE AGE
GOLD WATCH
GOLDEN
YEARS
MALE
LONGEVITY
FEMALE
LONGEVITY

Career #1

55

Encore Career

70-85

81

25

84

source: Dept. of Commerce - 1990s, New Passages, by Gail Sheehy

Whats
going on?
George Valliant
Grant Study

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Welcome to your

Odyssey Years !

Take the adventure in hand and head out !

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what is design thinking?

a process

design thinking?

a process

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what is design thinking?

an integrative methodology

a way of seeing things differently

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what is design thinking?

RE-FRAMING

CURIOSITY

point of view

what is design thinking?

a good approach

to wicked problems like designing your life

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Major-Career Linkage
OUTBOUND

Major-Career Linkage
INBOUND

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Major-Career Linkage
INBOUND

mind mapping
start with the topic you wish to map and
write its name in the center of your page
from this point draw a line and write down
the first thing that comes to mind
do this 4-7 times from the center point
from each of these topics draw a line and
write down the first thing that comes to
mind
do this 3-5 times from each topic
from each of thesecontinue as instructed
above.

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exercise #3
make a mind map about your digital camera

design problem:
Create a new kind of digital camera.
combine 2+ things from periphery of your mind map
use an unusual combination of things
your invention has to be novel, but it need not be practical
your invention should be useful to someone

Deliverable: A 60 second description of your invention

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course - framework
Meaning Making
POV, Workview, Worldview

Discovery & Support

Practices, Discernment, Mentors, Community

what do we get?

Meaning Making
POV, Workview, Worldview

Discovery & Support

Practices, Discernment, Mentors, Community

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questions?

if we had a class like this, just for you,

what questions would it answer ?

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