How Do We End Up Writing a Book?

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Timothy Stanley: "I was absolutely furious that the mentoring infrastructure of the modern world and the western culture in which I lived was criminally negligent on helping me become my adult self" He says he decided not to be a marine biologist when he was 19 because having no idea was more attractive. Stanley's new book is called The Art of Decision Making, written with help from his spiritual adviser John Houghton-Baptist.

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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