E241 Dave Evans - The Designer Mindset to Designing Your Life of Fulfillment and Happiness & Building Your Way Forward

Having participated in forming the corporate cultures at Apple and EA, Dave Evans decided his best work was in helping organizations build creative environments where people could do great work and love doing it. So he went out on his own; working with start-up teams, corporate executives, non-profit leaders, and countless young adults. They were all asking the same question. “What should I do with my life?” Helping people get traction on that question finally took Dave to Cal and Stanford and continues to be his life’s work.

Tyler and Dave discussed how to live life fully and enjoy the present through the application of design thinking, the process of taking control of your narrative.

Highlights include:

• The challenges of finding your passion, and accepting that your passion may not be the starting point of your career
• Why you need to be very careful about your life-directing, self questions
• Understanding the concepts of design, engineer and business thinking
• Wicked problems 
• The good and bad news for Elevate Nation
• The fact that there’s not one of you and you’ll be mostly unexpressed by the time you die
• Why you need to embrace dissatisfaction  
• What it means to build your way forward
• The importance of storytelling 
• Dave’s four strategies for refreshing and redesigning your job

Connect with Dave:

Website: https://designingyour.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-evans-62148/

The following books were mentioned in the show:

Designing Your New Work Life by Dave Evans: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704122/designing-your-new-work-life-by-bill-burnett-and-dave-evans/?pdivflag
After by Dr. Bruce Greyson: https://amzn.to/355KNZj
Mindsight by Dr. Daniel Siegel: https://amzn.to/3vdx5yX

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