Bill Burnett

Dave Evans, Stanford professor and Life Design Lab co-founder, and Bill Burnett, Stanford design professor and course co-creator, share practical life-design tools. They explore designing multiple possible lives, prototyping low-risk experiments, the Odyssey Plan and wild-card ideas, and exercises to clarify priorities. Short, actionable conversation about expanding possibilities and taking small steps toward a meaningful future.

Bill Burnett, educator and product designer who co-founded Stanford's Life Design Lab, and Dave Evans, life design co-founder and career strategist, join to explore design thinking for life. They discuss loneliness, curiosity as a portal to wonder, transactional versus flow ways of living, tiny prototypes to overcome fear, and designing small moments to create aliveness and meaning.

Bill Burnett, Stanford adjunct and life design teacher, and Dave Evans, co-founder of the Stanford Life Design Lab and design-thinking instructor, offer practical ways to craft a more meaningful life. They discuss applying design thinking to everyday choices. They explore radical acceptance, savoring small moments, shifting from transactional to flow experiences, and building coherence and community to foster purpose.

Bill Burnett, Stanford Life Design Lab director and design-thinking professor, and Dave Evans, co-founder of the Lab and product design lecturer, share practical approaches to crafting a meaningful life. They discuss purpose as direction, the compass and coherence tools, prototyping futures with odyssey plans, and the four ingredients of meaning: coherence, wonder, flow, and community.

Bill Burnett, co-author of "Designing Your Life" and Stanford's Life Design Lab co-director, shares insights on using design thinking to discover personal talents and navigate life’s roadblocks. He emphasizes that overcoming stagnation requires curiosity and experimentation. Additionally, Robert Armstrong discusses the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, connecting it to lessons in financial mismanagement and public perception shifts since the 2008 crisis. Together, they explore aligning personal values with career aspirations for a more meaningful journey.

Join Stanford design professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans as they explore how design thinking can lead to a more meaningful life. They share insights from their bestselling books, emphasizing the importance of curiosity, flexibility, and prototyping life choices. Discover the concept of creating multiple life plans to break free from binary thinking and FOMO. The duo discusses the generational shift towards seeking impactful work and equips listeners with practical strategies to navigate choices and discover personal coherence.

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.

This episode features Matt Pitcher, a financial advisor known for helping lottery winners navigate sudden wealth; Anindya Kundu, a sociologist studying the balance between personal agency and structural factors in student success; Jennifer Wallace, a journalist exploring how feeling valued impacts mental health; and Bill Burnett, a Stanford professor teaching life design. They discuss the complexities of control in life, the societal effects of wealth, the importance of support systems, and practical steps to create meaningful life plans.

Caroline Adams-Miller, author and goal-setting researcher, outlines BRIDGE and learning goals. Bill Burnett, Stanford Life Design Lab co-founder, shares five mindsets like wonder and coherence. Dave Evans, life design co-author, reframes fulfillment as becoming fully alive and balances flow with practical work. They discuss designing meaning, flow, coherence, and goal strategies in short, lively conversations.

Bill Burnett, Stanford Life Design Lab director and co-author focused on applying design thinking to craft purpose. Brad Beeler, former Secret Service agent and communication expert who teaches rapid trust-building. They explore high-stakes communication tactics, techniques to elicit truth, designing a meaningful life through prototyping and flow, and practical practices to notice and build moments of meaning.