Bill Burnett : 5 steps to designing the life you want

Bill Burnett·TEDxStanford
5 steps to designing the life you want 
Summary 

The article reminded me of an old speech. About 15 years ago, a famous man who was an American businessman and CEO of Apple Computer, gave a speech for graduates in the finest university to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks. His name was Steve Jobs and he never graduated from college. 

His first story was about connecting the dots. Not only his life but his biological mother and his parents’  lives were hard, he often thought that something that he did might be wasted, though, the dots somehow connected in the near future. 

We can’t connect the dots looking forward. We can only connect them looking backward, so we have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in our future. We have to trust in something. 

In this TEDtalk, the speaker’s first idea was about connecting the dots.

He gives us five steps to design the life we want. By using design, we can reframe our life anytime and anywhere. 

Trust about connecting the dots, 1)

Continue having curiosity, 2) 

Know that a lot of choices trouble you, 3) 

Think your luck, and 4) 

Try it. 5) We can’t design a well-lived joyful life!!