Designing the rest of your life | Dave Evans | TEDxSanFranciscoSalon
Summary
TLDRДэйв Эванс, основавший вместе с Биллом Бернеттом Стэнфордский лабораторию дизайна жизни, делится концепцией применения принципов дизайн-мистинг для решения 'злой' проблемы создания своей жизни после колледжа. Он рассматривает распространенные мифы о том, как найти свою страсть и быть 'лучшей версией себя', предлагая вместо этого подходы, такие как 'Одиссей план', который включает в себя разработку трех различных версий вашей жизни в течение следующих пяти лет. Эванс подчеркивает важность любознательности, общения с людьми и попыток новых вещей для создания долгих и впечатляющих жизней.
Takeaways
- 🎓 Dave Evans и Bill Burnett основали в Стэнфорде Life Design Lab, который помогает людям разрабатывать свою жизнь.
- 📚 Они преподают курсы по дизайну жизни для студентов всех курсов и возрастов, включая докторантов и постдокторантов.
- 🤔 Студенты часто не могут ответить на вопрос о том, что они хотят делать после окончания университета, что подчеркивает значимость таких курсов.
- 🧠 'Умные' не всегда означают 'ясные' или 'сфокусированные', что подчеркивает потребность в методах, помогающих определить жизненные цели.
- 🛠️ Life Design Lab использует методы дизайн-мистингинга, которые подходят для решения 'злых' проблем, таких как проектирование жизни.
- 🔍 Дизайн-мистингинг включает в себя процесс из пяти шагов и набор устонов, направленных на поощрение любопытства и сотрудничества.
- 🤝 'Интересный интерес' — это ключ к тому, чтобы люди хотели поделиться своими историями и опытом.
- 🚀 'Одиссейный план' — это методика разработки трех различных версий вашей жизни на следующие пять лет, чтобы понять, кем вы хотите быть.
- 👵 Несмотря на возраст, люди продолжают стремиться к росту и развитию, как показала история о Конни, 87-летней斯坦фордском альманахе.
- 💡 'Дизайн вашей жизни' означает создание и поддержание 'живости', то есть активности и интересов, которые приносят радость и удовлетворение.
- 🌟 Применение дизайн-мистингинга к жизни помогает людям быть более человечными, что, в свою очередь, увеличивает их надежду и помогает им чувствовать себя более помощными.
Q & A
Чем занимается лаборатория дизайна жизни в Стэнфорде?
-Лаборатория дизайна жизни в Стэнфорде занимается обучением студентов различных курсов Стэнфордского университета, научая их применять принципы проектирования для решения 'злой' проблемы создания своей жизни после колледжа.
Какие группы студентов обучаются в лаборатории дизайна жизни?
-Лаборатория обучает студентов всех курсов, начиная с первокурсников и sophomores, и заканчивая магистратами, аспирантами и докторантами.
Почему студенты Стэнфорда, которые уже достаточно умны, должны принимать курсы по дизайну жизни?
-Умность и образование не всегда сопровождается четкостью целей или фокусированностью. Курсы по дизайну жизни помогают студентам определить, что они хотят быть, когда вырастут, и развивать свои интересы и увлечения.
Что означает фраза 'злой' проблема в контексте дизайна жизни?
-Термин 'злой' проблема используется для описания проблем, которые сложно решить традиционными методами, потому что они не имеют четкого определения и требуют инновационного подхода, как в случае с созданием собственной жизни.
Какова основная миссия лаборатории дизайна жизни?
-Основная миссия лаборатории - это применение инновационных принципов дизайн-мистинг для решения сложной проблемы создания и развития жизни после колледжа.
Что такое 'нефункционирующие убеждения' и почему они могут быть проблемными?
-Нефункционирующие убеждения - это популярные, но не всегда верные идеи, которые не помогают решать проблемы. Они могут заблокировать человека, делая его несчастным и неспособным двигаться вперед в жизни.
Какое понятие 'пассион' может быть неполезным при определении цели жизни?
-Пытаясь определить 'пассион', многие люди могут оказаться в неопределенности, так как их страсть может быть не ясна или разнообразна. Это может оставить их без целей или планов для своей жизни.
Что такое 'Одиссей план' и как он помогает в дизайне жизни?
-Одиссей план - это методика, предлагаемая лабораторией дизайна жизни, которая включает в себя создание трех разных версий следующих пяти лет жизни. Это помогает раскрыть различные варианты и предпочтения человека.
Почему важно не останавливаться на достигнутом и продолжать развиваться?
-Важно продолжать развиваться, потому что это способствует обретению новых знаний, опыта и возможностей. Жизнь - это процесс, в котором нет конца росту и развития.
Как дизайн-мистинг помогает решать 'злую' проблему?
-Дизайн-мистинг - это процесс и набор мышления, который включает в себя пять шагов: понимание проблемы, определение точки зрения, генерация идей, их тестирование и реализация. Он подходит для решения сложных проблем, когда неизвестно, что ищем, до тех пор пока не найдем.
Какое значение имеет 'гуманный подход' в дизайне жизни?
-Гуманный подход в дизайне жизни означает, что процесс создается и применяется с учетом потребностей, желаний и возможностей реальных людей, что делает его более эффективным и значимым для каждого индивида.
Outlines
🎓 Жизнь как проект: дизайнерское мышление в жизни
Дэйв Эванс и Билл Бернетт основали Стэнфордский лабораторию дизайна жизни, где преподают курсы по дизайну жизни разным группам студентов. Они обнаружили, что умные студенты также могут быть рассеянными и неопределенными в плане своей жизни после окончания университета. Авторы предлагают использовать принципы дизайн-мышления для решения 'злой' проблемы проектирования своей жизни, представив идею 'плана Одиссея', который включает в себя три разных версии вашей жизни на接下来的 5 лет.
🌌 Мультивселенная жизни и поиск идентичности
Эванс предложил участникам провести мыслительный эксперимент о мультивселенной, где каждый может быть существующем в бесконечных параллельных вселенных. Цель - показать, что существует множество возможностей для каждого человека и не существует единого 'лучшего' варианта. Он утверждает, что мы все способны на изменения и рост в жизни, независимо от возраста, подчеркивая, что 'не слишком поздно' для изменения жизни.
🛠️ Применение дизайн-мышления в жизни
Дэйв Эванс объясняет, что дизайн-мышление - это способ мышления, который включает в себя как процесс, так и набор устонов. Он описывает пять шагов процесса: понимание ситуации, определение точки зрения, генерация идей, их испытание и, наконец, внедрение. Также он подчеркивает важность двух устонов дизайнера: любопытство и радикальная коллаборация, которые помогут людям найти свое место в жизни.
🤔 Поиск смысла и целостности в жизни через дизайн
В заключительном параграфе автор делится историей своей жены, Клодии, которая после тридцати лет одинаковой жизни, решила найти новый смысл. Она начала с любопытства и общения с разными людьми, изучая различные области, такие как медиация и бездомность. В результате Клодия нашла свою новую цель и стала национальным экспертом в области решений проблем бездомности. Эванс подчеркивает, что дизайн жизни - это процесс поиска и создания смысла, который ведет к долгой и радостной жизни.
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Keywords
💡Дизайн жизни
💡Курирование любопытства
💡Беседы с людьми
💡Попытки
💡Дизайн-мистинг
💡Любопытство
💡Многоверсии жизни
💡Дисфункциональные убеждения
💡Одиссей-план
💡Несколько жизней
💡Дизайн-мышление
Highlights
Dave Evans and Bill Burnett founded the Stanford Life Design Lab to help people design their lives.
The Lab teaches classes to various groups at Stanford, focusing on life and career design.
Students at Stanford, despite being smart, often lack clarity on their post-graduation plans.
The concept of 'passion' as an organizing principle for life design is critiqued as potentially dysfunctional.
The idea of being the 'best version' of oneself is challenged as it may lead to unhappiness due to unrealistic expectations.
A thought experiment about the multiverse suggests the existence of multiple versions of oneself.
The Odyssey Plan is introduced as a method to envision three different versions of one's future.
Design Thinking is presented as a process and mindset for building one's way forward in life.
Design Thinking involves a five-step process: understanding, defining, ideating, prototyping, and testing.
Curiosity is emphasized as a key driver for exploring different life paths.
The importance of storytelling in understanding one's life and connecting with others is highlighted.
Claudia's story exemplifies how curiosity can lead to meaningful engagement in life.
The concept of 'interested interested' as a way to facilitate conversations and gain insights is introduced.
Trying new things with low stakes is encouraged to explore different life possibilities.
The idea of designing a life is about creating a more human-centered approach to personal growth and fulfillment.
The presentation concludes with a call for a more human approach to life design, aiming for hope and help.
Transcripts
I'm Dave Evans and I help with this guy
named bill Burnett my partner in crime
bill can't be here today but the bill be
staying there and ten years ago we
founded this thing called the Stanford
Life design lab so what do we do at the
Stanford Life design level of course we
teach classes we teach classes to a
whole bunch of people just designing
your life two juniors and seniors we
teach designing your Stanford to
freshmen and sophomores we teach
designing the professional to master's
and PhD students and postdocs we teach
everybody we teach about 15 20 % of all
the students at Stanford now these are
smart people what do they need to take
this class work ethic you figure this
thing out
well let's see what they have to say
about that what do students actually
think about this question so we asked
some we went to a career fair you know
why are they taking this stuff so we
asked them the question what are you
gonna do with your life after you
graduate kind of curious what they would
think about that interesting answers to
that question sounds like this
interesting I was gonna go to med school
but some grades change that I think I'm
gonna go to law school my personal
favorite right there I have no idea
okay what's going on here now we did not
wait all day along for these seven
clueless Stanford students to make them
look bad okay this is very easy material
together don't forget they were at a
career fair seriously hello in fact you
know my name's and I'm desperately
unemployed please save me you know
that's you know that's what's going on
and these are the answers we're getting
well smart does not mean clear well
educated it does not mean focused or
well-intentioned so we've got this
question so again we form the life
design mission a life design lab on our
mission is to apply the innovation
principles of design thinking to the
wicked problem of designing your life at
and after college now the colored words
if we click on them and give you a white
paper is very educational stuff
pedagogically deep material you know and
so that's very interesting but kind of
jargony answered a what do you really
mean well what we really mean is this we
mean we're the guys who teach the
classes to help you figure out what you
want to be when you grow up and
everybody goes ooh
can I take the class everybody says
never let just everybody says that we've
been hearing there for like ten years
thousands of people say can I take the
class so that's why we wrote the book
that's how why we're here today cuz
everybody has this question now by the
way even the way we frame it here is
kind of allows you where to say it
because I don't know about you guys but
I personally have no intention of ever
being done growing up how many of you
want to be done growing up how many I
want to keep growing
okay that's a trick question right so
maybe we should reframe this a little
bit maybe one of the guys to teach
classes to help you keep figuring out
what you want to be next that's a better
way to put it but even so the question
still remains an important question why
why are so many people asking this
question why is this such a hard thing
to do well there are a lot of reasons
but one of them is people are stuck
people shocked is there in a bad place
hard to get out of there what are you
gonna do you know unless another
friendly cow comes along and one of the
big causes of this is what we call
dysfunctional beliefs dysfunctional
believes which are very popular ideas
but they're not particularly true
they're certainly not helpful and is
marked my father they're not generative
a couple of examples for instance a very
very common very popular question I bet
you've even heard it recently hey what's
your passion properly friends what's
your passion what is your best
are you following up how do you know
you're passionate who knows your passion
are you doing your passion are you are
you are you here's the problem why is
the dysfunctional babe well because it
turns does according to the resource
some of our colleagues at Stanford bill
Damon has discovered about eight out of
ten people answer the question what's
your passion with either I don't know or
which one did you want to hear about
first either of those answers means what
your passion is not a good organizing
principle for figuring out what the rest
of your life is all about let's not
start with a question that leaves eight
out of ten people in a remedial case
when all they're being is normal
dysfunctional bleep bad idea let's try
another one very common idea hey are you
being the best version of you are you
are you really being the best you are
you sure this life you're living is this
really it are you sure is this it and
was it that you're not missing it oh my
god you're not settling are you are you
settling I mean we're in San Francisco
we don't saddle here here's the problem
if there's an old business fridge you
know the good is the enemy of the better
and the better is the enemy of the best
are you peeing your best or are you are
you being our best
it was great halftime talk but here's
the problem what we have noticed is
everybody contains more aliveness than
one lifetime permits them to live ie
there's more than one of you in there
now I'm on my fifth career but I'm old
I'm 64 I've got four point seven
grandchildren one doing November
and you know I've been lots of different
things and how do you compare his best
hey best something means a singular
exclusive optimization that you know
beyond a shadow of a doubt is better
than all the alternatives to pull that
off only one set of criteria can you be
used to fairly judge all the different
possibilities does that really work with
your life no it doesn't work
I miss my grandfather self better than
my author self it's my other self better
than my start up self or my educator
self it's a dumb question you can't
compare them they're entirely different
so the rest of that soliloquy ought to
be and the false best is the enemy of
available better here's the problem have
you signed up for this idea you've
decided you have to be your best self
and there isn't one best you you just
decided to be unhappy for the rest of
your life don't go there
let's don't go there it's a bad idea let
me demonstrate how this actually works
because what I want to do is actually
ask your question would find out now who
do this all the time how many lives are
you perhaps Nations explain the question
we're gonna do a little experiment now
it's called a Gedanken experiment that's
the technical name for a thought
experiment and in German and sometimes
you do them in your head because you
can't do them anywhere else you have to
do them imagine aliso let's imagine that
in fact we've now proven indeed it's a
multiverse there are infinite parallel
universes out there in the cosmos
angstroms apart in the nineteenth
dimension if we but knew how to measure
it but they're out there trust me thing
too we've figured out that we can do
concurrent consciousness by deploying
wormholes and string theory so there are
infinite universes and you're present
and all of them and you can be
consciously aware of all of you at the
same time how cool is that
but there's one really strange thing
about the multiverse you have to reserve
a place in advance it's kind of like
open table you know we got a call ahead
so to get into the multiverse we just
need to know how many of you you'd like
you can have as many as you want all the
different versions of you and isn't that
like Wolverine who gets older and
everybody dies the autumn we have to
start over over and again note
everybody's there it's all fine you're
healthy everything you need is there you
can even repeat the thing
else had the life they're in now you
love you do it again if you could find
you can have as many do-overs this you
want first time we took her to
Disneyland my lovely daughter Lisa
decided a good way to spend an entire
day was to ride Dumbo 42 times after 38
honey want to do it again yes okay so
let's keep doing w under 42 Dumbo's you
got that but I want you now to think of
all the different lives you could
possibly have and one more you'd finally
say I just don't know what I'd do with
that one so pick a number in your head
how many lives might you be in the
multiverse I'm gonna go one two three
one what I said four shout your number
you break out a number your head
participative experience here here we go
1 2 3 very 10 7 and 18 ok median 12.2
which means look the numbers bigger than
1 right there's more than one of you and
we all know this
so the reframe is really simple look
there are lots of great use you know and
so in fact they're the center fees
exercise we do in our courses in our
book we call the Odyssey plan the
odyssey plan is three different versions
of the next 5 years of you'll have
completely different versions you know
because of course there's more than one
of you can't have an idea about your
future have to have some ideas about
your future because there's so many of
you and it's never too late is it really
never too late is it really never too
late yes it is really never too late by
the way because we're doing this stuff
and we did the book and the Stanford
sent us to 16 cities and all this stuff
people suddenly say well gosh you guys
hang out with young people a lot you you
talk to college students on a lot of
Millennials you know don't you really
find this is a young prisons question
that what's really true is you know
there's a certain point fence which this
is not the question anymore let me
reframe what you just asked me Dave you
and Bill been on the road a lot have you
noticed there's an age passed which most
people really don't care anymore and
they're just waiting to die and there's
no we have not noticed that and the
first big meeting we had 40 people in
New York come out to talk about stuff
just like we're talking here right in
the middle in the center from the class
of 1953 there's our Stanford alumni you
know is Connie and Connie is 87 years
old and we do this exercise we do this
exercise
in the room with the three versions of
your future and of course immediately I
can see she's stuck
well she's 87 you know how come dear can
I can I help you
oh yes could you please I just have so
many ideas I don't know where to start
oh oh that's the problem you got you
really want to be Connie when you grow
up trust me when I do that little
exercise we just did my anecdotal
observation is the older the median age
of a crowd the higher the number you're
not just getting older you're not even
just getting better you're getting
bigger over time you realize how
capacious and huge you actually are now
why the world really is this thing just
gets better and worse at the same time
all right so that's Connie now is it
really never too late I just got an
email from a woman who said thank you
very much I just wanted you to know
you're really able to help people
because I have a dear husband whose
parents convinced him when he was a
child that he really wasn't worth
anything and he unfortunately believed
them and for the 38 years of our
marriage I've been trying to encourage
him and he's really been stuck and
hasn't really been able to get anywhere
but some of your ideas have helped him
and he's actually moving he's finally
moving that's not because we wrote an
amazing book books aren't gonna just
fundamentally change you he's an amazing
person we're all amazing persons it's
just you might have some stuff in your
head that's got you stuck that you don't
need anymore is it really true it's
never too late yes it really is so build
your way for by designing your life now
what does that mean the secret sauce is
this design thinking so very briefly
Design Thinking is one of a number of
ways of thinking with engineering
thinking sharing thinking solves
problems way well understand that's
great good way to build a bridge build
if today it works
build it tomorrow it works fine you know
that's a great solution we got business
thinking in business you never write you
never done you'd ever have enough
profitability or enough customer
satisfaction but you can optimize your
gonna have figures of marriage you can
learn how to think in an optimization
sort of wake in to research like we do
at the University start with hypothesis
dependent independent variables a whole
series of steps to get down to the
critical question it's a wonderful
analytic approach so I can solve my way
for it I can optimize my way for I can
analyze my way for it but all those tame
problem solutions well bounded well
interested problem solutions don't solve
wicked problems when you don't know what
you're looking for until you find it
kind of like your own life and that's
when you have to build your way forward
in design thinking as a way to build
your way forward and solve a wicked
problem it does too has two descriptions
a process and a set of mindsets the
process has five steps you can start
with everything really understand what's
going on then define your point of view
then have some ideas try them out and go
test them before you hit the world and
before you do any of that don't forget
to accept the reality the way it is
because trust me it goes through a place
that looks just like today no matter
where you are you're starting the right
place the mind sets the way a designer
kind of look two things are pretty
simple you know we start with curiosity
ooh that's interesting which is gonna
cause us to go talk to a whole bunch of
people the radical collaboration doesn't
mean radical ideas that means radically
talk to everybody and in so doing I'm
probably gonna get a new point if I'm
going to reframe the way I think about
some things I'm gonna keep the process
steps in mind so I get neither head up
nor behind myself and eventually when in
doubt do something quit thinking and
analyzing go do stuff we build and we do
to think so what is this designing a
life what do you guys actually talk
about well it's a whole bunch of stuff
it's all that that's way too much I mean
okay so could you could you simplify
that if you're not thinking down well
yeah there's three things get curious
talk to people try stuff that's really
it ah no let's take these one at time
victorious curate your curiosity by
pursuing layton wonderful us you know it
looks like if you've curated your
curiosity curating curiosity means you
live - the kind of life like my friend
Stu did when he was well into his
nineties and he was dying he was
homeland hospice care and he was
fidgeting a little bit and he looked
like he might have been been in some
pain in his and his daughter said dad do
you want me to hit the morphine button
he says no no no only good to do this
once I don't miss it
that's serious curiosity I wonder what
my death is going to be like that's
going to be so interesting that's a guy
this curators curiosity but now to make
this thing accessible you know that's
not the at the end of a guy that already
knows have
how do you build this well lets you use
a story we use a story a particularly
life will illustrate this too in the
book a caller Clara in life we call her
Claudia I happen to know this story
right there well because she just
happens to be my wife okay um
nepotism notwithstanding it's a great
illustration how to do this thing right
so in in curiosity by the way she starts
out by being curious about the fact that
what do I do now because she did exactly
two things for thirty years raised her
kids and made the money single mom kids
graduate move toward retirement haven't
got a single idea what to do with myself
haven't got a single passion haven't got
a plan B have got nothing so what do I
do I decide the world is full of
interesting things and I'm gonna start
being aware of what I not didn't used to
notice and open the way the only thing I
could remember is I used to be a
feminist and I still am actually and I
think that's really important of it that
women thing is important to me so she
just starts noticing and looking and she
bumps into a thing called the California
Women's Foundation and she talks to some
of these people she is sitting at the
coffee I were at church and somebody
announces there's a mediation clash it
was it was that's interesting what is
mediation anyway and off she goes
and those curiosities begin to cure it
and turn into talking to people now when
you talk to me what do you do get the
story there's not about getting the job
it's not about getting the money it's
not about getting the transaction it's
just about get the story when you talk
to people you're just getting the story
so she does this she gets the story from
the mediator and finds that really
interesting and gets invited to maybe
take a class and come observe and she
she goes to the Women's Foundation
you know meets with the president sits
in on a meeting gets invited to come you
know she just follows her know he's
pursuing layton wonderful and she
doesn't even know what she's looking for
yet she'll know it when she finds it now
you say maybe I'm you know like Amy I'm
an insurer I don't want to do all that
talking how does that work what's the
secret to get people to talk you it's
really simple interested is interesting
interested is interested curiosity
really does work if you've decided who a
coin therapy I didn't even know horses
had depression no no we use horses to
help people with depression you know and
so the equity is like a real safe you
can actually do a quite fit okay and so
you go find an equi interest now how
many of you probably think you know what
how do you think your life is
interesting to you yeah about that most
people do so if it turns out I've done
the research and hey you know
Aloise your neckline therapist I think
what you do is fascinating and you think
what you do is fascinating we share the
fact that we both think you are so cool
so we could have a conversation that
interesting interested is really
interesting and if you curate a true
curiosity it's a power pill inside you
that will move you through but I don't
know how to do this which finally get
you to try stuff when it comes to try
stuff they mean set the bar low and
clear it I just had a cup of coffee she
says and then I went to I sat in on a
meeting you know and observed a class
and then I'm going to take the class she
just took the class that didn't sign up
it isn't certified eventually she's
doing mediation on the side you know and
what you want to do then is repeat until
engaged there's no deadline so Claudia
kept going on these things and it turned
out the one that she noticed herself
continuing to come back to over and over
again was on homelessness one of the
philanthropists in town said hey I hear
you're looking for stuff to do follow me
come take a tour of the homeless service
center in Santa Cruz she can't be here
with me today because she's flying back
from DC having just been a week in the
National homelessness conference because
she's on the way to becoming a national
thought leader on solving this problem
after seven years of being the president
of the homeless Center in Santa Cruz
where we live so repeat until engaged
and that's what it means to design your
life what are really saying is we're
designing our aliveness the whole point
is to by getting curious curating that
curiosity proactively the same way stood
in the same way eventually Claudia
they're very accessible way and then
talk to a bunch of people it's all about
the people you're hearing social
connectedness from all of us and then
try stuff and keep trying stuff until
you notice oh I'm actually doing stuff
and that's the way you can design a long
and joyful life okay I'm just about out
of time in fact I get eleven point two
seconds so wrapping this thing up why
does this work what's this all about
what's really about this human centered
design thing design thinking was called
human centered design when it was
conceived in the 60s it's all about what
works for people so applying a human
process to the human life real thing
real tools for real people that's what
it's all about
so does any life we're just trying to do
this a little more humanely and the
feedback we're getting is that that more
human approach is leaving people more
hopeful and a little bit or helped
so as we ask the question about
longevity
what kind of life we trying to help
people experience we're probably coming
up but things like happen we want be
able to be more passionate and balanced
and super powered and connected and kale
loving and innovative and just plain
dazzling you know let's have long
dazzling lives you know that's great but
can we not lose our focus on being a
little more human and if we pursued that
that would be a worthy thing Thanks
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