Bill Burnett and Dave Evans's 2016 application of Stanford's design thinking methodology to career and life decisions — using prototyping, iteration, and reframing techniques to help readers design a meaningful life, becoming the most popular book based on a Stanford course.
Applied product design methodology to life design — the book's core insight (life decisions should be prototyped, not optimized; reframe 'what should I do with my life?' as 'what might I try next?') removed the paralysis of singular life planning and made career exploration feel like a design process.
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