Are Millennials Thinking About Going Forward?

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I wonder if part of what's going on is that we're sort of like the kids of parents who went through the war. And so for them, right. For then the existential question, you're like, let's find meaning. Let's find it. No, no, no, let's keep do anything we need to do to put a roof over the, you know, and put food on the table. That's our job. Right. You know, and then we saw like we're close enough to have understood that ethos and even if it wasn't directly transmitted to us, we absorbed it. I don't think they're fearful that the world's not going to work

Today’s guest, Dave Evans, is a lecturer at the famed Stanford d.School a theological scholar and management consultant. He is also a man on a mission to explore what it means to spend time designing your life.

As an early team-member at Apple, he led product marketing for the mouse and introduced laser printing to the masses.

He then joined gaming behemoth, Electronic Arts, as employee #2, before leaving to help start-up teams, corporate executives, non-profit leaders, and countless young adults build amazing ventures.

Along the way, he realized they were all asking the same question. “What should I do with my life?” Helping people get traction on that question finally took develop a groundbreaking course that applies design thinking to life, where he introduced the concept designing your life to students at Berkeley and then Stanford.

His latest book, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-lived, Joyful Life, walks you through the entire, step-by-step process.

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