How to Design a More Meaningful Life (with Dave Evans and Bill Burnett)
2/2/202647 min
What does it mean to live a meaningful life? How do you find direction when you feel stuck or you’re unsure about your purpose? Dave Evans and Bill Burnett, co-founders of the Stanford Life Design Lab and authors of How to Live a Meaningful Life join Dr. Laurie to challenge our assumptions about where meaning really comes from. They share practical strategies from the world of design thinking to create a more purposeful and fulfilling life while making the most of your current circumstances.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Designing Your Life: How to Bu...
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First 90 secondsLaurie Santos· Host0:00
[intro music] Pushkin. [gentle music] Let's be real for a second. The world feels pretty overwhelming right now. Lots of us are feeling exhausted and despondent. We spend our days grinding at work and then trying to zone out when we get out of work, which often means scrolling endlessly just to unwind. And if that sounds familiar, you might be wondering quietly to yourself, "Is this all there is? How do I feel better when the world feels so blah?" What if there was a way to hit the reset button on how you experience life, to see the world with fresh eyes like you did as a child, when everything felt alive, full of possibility, and somehow a little magical?
Dave Evans· Guest0:50
The mere fact that anything exists at all is astonishing. So just take a longer, deeper look into almost anything, and some wondrousness might be available to you.
Laurie Santos· Host1:04
Well, in today's episode, the last one in our series on how to get unstuck in 2026, we'll learn that this mindset can be within reach. In fact, today's two guests will share their tips for how to design it.
Dave Evans· Guest1:16
Greetings. This is Dave Evans, the co-founder of the Stanford Life Design Lab. So glad to be here today with Dr. Laurie Santos and my dear partner, Bill Burnett. We've been teaching life design for 20-odd years now.
Bill Burnett· Guest1:27
Hi, I'm Bill Burnett. I'm a adjunct professor at Stanford University,