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 Christian faith and contemplative spirituality, he created a transformative Design Thinking process that has helped 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: How Dave and his wife are dealing with her terminal cancer Focusing on the present How an early life tragedy set in motion a search for a worthy and meaningful life His period of "clumsily iterating" An unexpected call from Apple A chance to teach at UC Berkley Starting Life Design at Stanford over a 5-minute lunch Expanding Design Thinking in interesting ways   TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS   [3:06] Living in Paradox [10:37] Early Childhood Driving Forces [12:53] Searching for Direction [20:27] An Unexpected Call  [27:04] Finding Your Vocation [29:48] Life Design Lab [33:28] Step Zero [40:29] The Idea of Coherence [45:40] A Sermon on Choosing Life   EPISODE LINKS Dave's Links 🌍 Designing Your Life 🌍 Stanford Life Design Lab 📺 TEDx Talk  📺 Talk at Google: Designing Your Life  📗 Design Your Life 📘 Design Your Work Life 📣 Twitter: @DaveEvansDYL Other Links 🌍 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: podcast@remakelabs.com 👉 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.