Designing Your Life

Introductions

Career Statements: True or False?

#1: You should just follow your passion

The vast majority (80%) of students don't know their passion

#2: Your first job after college is the most important

New grads will change jobs 4 times in the first 10 years

#3: Your major will determine the type of job you can get

Only 27% of college grads end up in a career related to their majors

#4 Most jobs are found through someone you know

~60-80% of all jobs are found through someone you know

Forecast: 85% of the jobs in 2030 have not been created yet

Agenda

• Intro to Designing Your Life framework
• How to Design Your Life
• Resources
• Q&A/Discussion

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Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

Don't follow your passion

There's more than 1 best path

Start where you are today

Design Thinking

Ideate

Prototype

Test

Apple Mouse

Airbnb

Bubble wrap

How to Design Your Life

Great Products come from Good Design

Well-lived lives come from good design

You can't think your way to great design or a great life

Designer Mindset & Framework

1. Be Curious

Be open to possibilities

Make your own luck

Example of creating your own luck?

2. Try Stuff

Have a bias for action

If there's only 1 thing you remember...

Rapid Protyping

Fail fast and fail forward

Michael Jordan on Success Through Failure...

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed"

Exercise

• Create 2 Alternative Lives
• Life 1: What if your current plan disappears
• Life 2: If money or image were no object
• 2 ways to Prototype these lives

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3. Reframe Problems

Reframing is how designers get unstuck

Example of being stuck?

4. Know it's a process

Accept that Life is Messy

1 step forward, 2 steps back

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

Bill Gates

"85% of the jobs in 2030 have not been created yet"

5. Ask for help

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
— Isaac Newton

Resources

www.designingyour.life

• Book
• Podcast
• Ted Talk
• Classes

LinkedIn

Career Center

• Resume review
• Mock Interviewing
• Alumni services

Q&A, Discussion