Sparks of Gratitude 27. My Life is My Biggest Design Project: “Design the Life You Love” - Ayse Birsel
Jul 15, 2024
45:10
Industrial designer Ayse Birsel is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People and is on the Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of organizations. She is the author of Design the Life You Love. She believes our life is our biggest design project and gives lectures and workshops to help individuals and companies to design the life they love and live it.
In this episode of the Sparks Gratitude Podcast, Ayse explains how life is the biggest design project we have ever undertaken, full of possibilities and obstacles. Learn how the design process can be appliedto our own life. She talks about the value deconstruction, reconstruction, and point of view. We talk about giving ourselves permission to be playful to find creativity and a willingness to experiment with ideas. We discuss the significance of values, which serve as the cornerstone of our way of living.
Ayse Birsel's website:
https://www.aysebirsel.com/
Chapter:
00:00 - Intro
02:06 - About life in Paris and New York
04:22 - From Pessimism to Optimism
06:15 - Ayse Birsel: Creating “Design the Life You Love”
10:34 - Design Process: Deconstruction and Reconstruction
13:42 - How our life is our biggest design project
18:03 - Explained the Point of view
21:17 - Tools in Permission to be playful
25:05 - Importance of having and discovering what those values are in building our life
30:09 - Life lessons from Karate
34:26- Marshall Goldsmith: Expressing gratitude for younger self and future self
37:17 - Astronauts of long life | The four pillars of life - Love, Purpose, Well-Being and Friendship
40:40 - Design the Long Life You Love | became a best seller in the love category
Also Mentioned in this Episode:
Chester Elton Episode: https://youtu.be/qryGI0zS0mg
In this episode of the Sparks Gratitude Podcast, Ayse explains how life is the biggest design project we have ever undertaken, full of possibilities and obstacles. Learn how the design process can be appliedto our own life. She talks about the value deconstruction, reconstruction, and point of view. We talk about giving ourselves permission to be playful to find creativity and a willingness to experiment with ideas. We discuss the significance of values, which serve as the cornerstone of our way of living.
Ayse Birsel's website:
https://www.aysebirsel.com/
Chapter:
00:00 - Intro
02:06 - About life in Paris and New York
04:22 - From Pessimism to Optimism
06:15 - Ayse Birsel: Creating “Design the Life You Love”
10:34 - Design Process: Deconstruction and Reconstruction
13:42 - How our life is our biggest design project
18:03 - Explained the Point of view
21:17 - Tools in Permission to be playful
25:05 - Importance of having and discovering what those values are in building our life
30:09 - Life lessons from Karate
34:26- Marshall Goldsmith: Expressing gratitude for younger self and future self
37:17 - Astronauts of long life | The four pillars of life - Love, Purpose, Well-Being and Friendship
40:40 - Design the Long Life You Love | became a best seller in the love category
Also Mentioned in this Episode:
Chester Elton Episode: https://youtu.be/qryGI0zS0mg
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