Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

Name: Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Price: 1.99 USD
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Rating: 4.5 (6021 reviews)
Author: Bill Burnett

by Bill Burnett

Self Help Business

4.5 (6,021)

4.5 stars from 6,021 reviews. One of the highest rated Self Help books we track.

256 pages~4.3 hr readPublished by RoccoPublished 2013-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You're stuck in a career that pays the bills but leaves you empty, and you're ready to think differently about what comes next.
You've heard all the self-help platitudes about following your dreams and want a practical framework that actually works.
You like solving problems methodically, and the idea of applying design thinking to your own life appeals to your brain.

Maybe not for you if...

You're looking for motivational speeches and affirmations rather than worksheets and structured exercises.
You want a quick fix or a single answer to your life's direction—this requires actual work and reflection.
You prefer memoir-style storytelling over frameworks and methodology.

About this book

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans apply design thinking—the problem-solving approach used to create technology, products, and spaces—to the challenge of building a meaningful life. The book shows how designers tackle problems by creating solutions, and argues that the same methods can be applied to designing your career and life at any age or stage. Through design thinking, readers can create a life that is fulfilling and joyful, one that remains creative and productive while holding the possibility of surprise. The authors demonstrate how this approach works regardless of who you are, where you are, what you do, or what you have done for a living.

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Currently on sale at $1.99 — 88% off peak. Price has dropped 20 times over the last 6 years. Goes on sale roughly every 116 days. Typically stays discounted for 4 days.

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Currently around #19K in the Kindle store — a steady mid-list seller.

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Currently 4.5★ from 6,021 reviews

Gaining approximately 30 new reviews per month. Steady word of mouth growth. Rating has remained stable at 4.5 over the tracking period.

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