Designing Your Life: Build A Life That Works For You

*** The #1 New York Times Bestseller *** 'A gem amid self-help dross' Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist 'Life has questions. They have answers' New York Times Whether we're 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question, `What do you want to be when you grow up?' In Designing Your Life, Silicon Valley design innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans use their expertise to help you work out what you want - and how to get it. Their phenomenally successful Life Design course has been tried and tested by thousands of people, from students to mid-career professionals to retirees contemplating a whole new future. Now in book form for the first time, their simple method will teach you how to use basic design tools to create a life that will work for you. Using real-life stories and proven techniques like reframing, prototyping and mind-mapping, you will learn how to build your way forwards, step-by-positive-step, to a life that's better by a design of your own making. Because a well-designed life means a life well-lived.