Designing My Life Reflections from one of Stanfords Most Unique Courses by Nicholas Benavides
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Others emphasized prototypes, such as conducting informational interviews and running a week-long experiment to address some aspect of our relationship with our phones. In one assignment, we completed the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment, which produced a report and insights on our areas of strengths. Finally, the main project for the course was called the Odyssey Plan, which tasked us with generating and presenting 3 potential 5-year plans and a 10-year plan, including both personal and professional milestones, among other things. If you’re not familiar with design thinking, it’s an iterative, human-centered approach to problem-solving that seeks to redefine problems in an attempt to expand the set of possible solutions and generate innovative ideas that you may not have come up with before.
What if I don’t have career ideas yet or even am unsure about my major?
Following a simple playbook, you can create a plan that gets you to where you want to be, in your career and beyond. Taught by two Stanford design theory experts, this four-hour course addresses how a person can build an enjoyable, meaningful life using design theory. Students listen to a recorded live lecture, participate in thoughtful prompts, and gain scientifically backed tools to address their future. By the end, you'll design multiple life plans for the next five years, and learn to reframe unsolvable "Gravity Problems" — like an overseas job offer when you don't want to live far from your parents — without undue anxiety or dread. Design theory, a human-centered, psychology-focused methodology for designing products and services, can also help us build a life that's customized and enjoyable. Career Educators connect students with the people and knowledge needed to help them explore career paths, identify and apply for opportunities, and cultivate personalized networks that shape their professional journey.
Unlearning 1: You need to have a 10-year plan.
As Founder of Holistic Connections, Inc., the company’s mission is to create transformative experiences for individuals and groups allowing for a deeper level of connection, awareness, and presence through unique integrative practices. These include the Enneagram of the Narrative Tradition, Kundalini yoga, meditation and breathwork and Emotional Polarity Technique as ways to unwind outdated narratives in order to connect with and reveal one’s authentic voice. The challenge is made possible by generous sponsorship from a number of companies and foundations. Lead sponsorship is provided by Target and Finance of America Reverse.
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ARE THERE SIMILAR COURSES I COULD TAKE?
It was created by Anjali Kalavar, Ryan Noble & Shelsea Veloz from Northwestern University and their teammate Joseph Murphy. The app includes “quests” such as cooking, housekeeping, and first aid, and leads users through guided scenarios to learn new skills. This post is a slight revision of my final assignment for the course, which tasked us with reflecting on the quarter and identifying several learnings and unlearnings.
Videos: Odyssey Planning
However, this course is not intended to be an introduction to design thinking. For an intro to design thinking, check out this virtual crash course. For a more on applying the design thinking process to your life and career, check out the best-selling Designing Your Life Book.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a Statement of Accomplishment available for this course? This course is intended to be reflective and give you some tools to engage with the resources around you. Andrea Ciafardini is the Mindfulness and Meditation Instructor for the DYL for Women experience.
Creativity and Design Thinking Program
Should you choose a career that helps the most people, one that makes the most money, or one that’s the most fun? What’s so important about being your authentic self if it means being an outcast? In this course, students will design their own “life philosophy,” drawing inspiration in views of the good life put forward by history’s great philosophers and exploring how their theories are reflected in the world around us in pop culture. We also engage with cutting-edge developments in the philosophy of identity, thinking about what our race, gender, or sexuality tell us about who we are.
You will use the mindsets of a designer on your own life and to get unstuck. By the end of the term, you will be able to apply the design process on problems that matter to you. Taking DYL this quarter forced me to be more reflective than I typically am, and in doing so, really showed me the power of awareness. Whether it be taking note of my daily screen time, moments of flow, things I got stuck on, or moments of gratitude, being aware is a critical first step to making any real change in yourself and/or your life.
It’s a prevalent approach to design and problem-solving at Stanford and in Silicon Valley. This course is designed to be flexible and adaptive to the needs of each user. The course is structured around a set of videos, with activities and exercises that correspond to each video subject.
Bill Burnett is an Adjunct Professor and the Executive Director of the Life Design Lab at Stanford. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents and design awards, and, in addition to his duties at Stanford, he advises several of his students’ startup companies. Using proven methodologies developed at Stanford University and made popular by the bestselling books Designing Your Life and Designing Your New Work Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, life design has impacted millions of lives around the world. Designing Your Life is one of many courses we teach that applies the Design Thinking approach to wicked life problems. One of the advantages of this approach is it doesn’t start by asking the question, “Well —what is your passion?
Not having any desire to work at a huge tech company fits with this. Wanting to leave the people and organizations I encounter better than I found them fits with this. This 2.5-day workshop is based on the book, Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. You will learn new ways to frame problems, strategies to help you get unstuck, and insights into your decision-making processes.
You might take a professor out for coffee; you might explore a club on campus you know nothing about. In documenting and reflecting on these encounters, you will begin to piece together a portfolio of experiences that will help tell the story of your Stanford career. Online materials will be available on March 11 at mystanfordconnection. However, that can also be a boon; there's a lower barrier of entry to a course that you get to be a fly-on-the-wall for.
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