014. Dave Evans: Design Your Way to a Joyous Life

TODAY’S GUEST Dave Evans worked on the first computer mouse at Apple, founded the Life Design Lab at Stanford alongside Bill Burnett, and is a bestselling author of two books — Design Your Life, and Design Your Work Life. Informed by early tragedy, by his own missteps along the way, and by his contemplative spirituality, he created a transformative Design Thinking process that has helped many thousands of students and adults, at Stanford and around the world, to figure out what they want to do with their "one wild and precious life". In this conversation, in the shadow of the epidemic and his wife’s final battle with cancer — we talk about what it means to lead a joyful, vital, and meaningful life.   EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we discuss: [2:59] Living in paradox, how Dave and his wife are dealing with her terminal cancer, focusing on the present. [10:24] Dave's early life, and how an early life tragedy set in motion a search for a worthy and meaningful life. [13:47] Walking into the Stanford Career Center at 19, looking for answers on what to do in life. [17:08] Consulting successful grownups, and finding no answers. [19:12] A period of "clumsily iterating". [20:28] An unexpected call from Apple. [27:04] A chance to teach at UC Berkley. [29:49] Starting Life Design at Stanford over a 5-minute lunch. [33:28] Expanding Design Thinking in interesting ways. [40:29] The idea of Coherence. [45:40] Dave's short sermon for young people.   EPISODE LINKS Dave's Links 🌍 DesignYour.Life 🌍 Stanford Life Design Lab 📣 Twitter: @DaveEvansDYL 📺 Videos: TEDxSanFranciscoSalon "Designing the rest of your life"  📺 Videos: Talk at Google: Designing Your Life  📗 BOOK: Design Your Life 📘 BOOK: Design Your Work Life Other Things Discussed 🌍 IDEO 🌍 dSchool at Stanford 📺 The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau   ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePod.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: [email protected] 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

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Remake is a podcast about Design, Systems, and Society. And I'm Eran Dror, a product designer and researcher of eastern religions. In each episode I interview someone who’s trying to change our lives for the better in some meaningful way, whether through a new product, new venture, or new way of looking at the world, and I try to understand how they came to it, what makes them tick, and what we all can learn from them. I truly believe Design is strategic, that it goes to the core, that it's at the root of what it means to be human. In this show we explore an expansive view of design, and cover Systems Thinking, Social Innovation, Secular spirituality, and the future.