Soul Boom The Secret to a Meaningful Life (w/ Bill Burnett & Dave Evans)
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Mar 17, 2026 
Dave Evans, design thinker who teaches reframing and practical prototyping for meaningful living, and Bill Burnett, design educator who applies human-centered design to life planning, discuss why people feel stuck. They tackle radical acceptance, reframing the passion myth, designing small moments of meaning, prototyping life choices, and standing in heartbreak with an open heart.
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Life Design Adapts Human Centered Design
- Design is a neutral, empirical process that can be applied to life to make the next version better.
- Bill Burnett and Dave Evans adapted human-centered design with an added step called accept to turn prototyping and empathy into life design tools.
Begin With Radical Acceptance
- Start with radical acceptance before trying to change your life because the brain prefers familiar pain to the energy of change.
- Explicitly decide you want to change anything, even a small curiosity experiment, to lower activation energy and begin prototyping.
You Are Multiple Possible Lives
- Most people are multivariant beings with multiple plausible lives, so searching for one singular passion is misleading.
- Burnett and Evans' multiverse Gedanken experiment shows median people imagine seven or eight life-slots, freeing them from FOMO.
