REVISITING EPISODE 014:

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 β€” 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

 

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