Stanford Professors Bill Burnett & Dave Evans On How To Design A Meaningful Life
3/16/20262 hr
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans created perhaps the most popular course at Stanford, "Designing Your Life," and co-authored the book "How to Live a Meaningful Life."
This conversation explores the intersection of product design and personal development. We discuss the loneliness epidemic, why there is no best self, curiosity as the gateway drug to wonder, the transactional world versus the flow world, and why the wisest people across every tradition all arrive at the same conclusion.
This one broke me open in the best way possible. Enjoy!
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