Wake Up Excited! Exploring Life's Design with Aarron Walter
Jul 16, 2025
Aarron Walter, co-host of the Design Better and Reconsidering podcasts and author of 'Designing for Emotion,' shares his insights on creativity and personal growth. He discusses the philosophy of 'super activities' that fulfill multiple needs and emphasizes curiosity as a key to creative reinvention. Aarron delves into money as a tool for freedom and aligning spending with personal values. He advocates for living an examined life, reflecting on how seasons of life influence priorities, and encourages continual learning and presence in everyday moments.
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Tuning Life's Dials
- Aarron Walter treats life as adjustable dials to tune intellectual, emotional, and spiritual satisfaction.
- He prioritizes sustained satisfaction over fleeting happiness by focusing on usefulness and learning.
Guitar And Jujitsu As Lifelong Classrooms
- Aarron restarted guitar and began jujitsu to embrace continual learning and humility.
- Both pursuits reminded him mastery is a lifelong, humbling quest with no fixed destination.
Stay Close To New Ideas
- Staying close to new ideas and young collaborators revitalizes creativity across decades.
- Aarron admires creatives who continually re-envision themselves, like Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis.
