Find Happiness and new freedom at work
How can we transform our work lives and create the dream job? Join Bill Burnett, co-author of Designing Your New Work Life, as he offers real steps and a road map to transform our job and improve work experience, helping us reframe problems and move into action.
Bill Burnett is the Executive Director of the Life Design Lab at Stanford. He got his BS and MS in Product Design at Stanford and has worked professionally on a wide variety of projects ranging from award-winning Apple PowerBooks to the original Star Wars action figures. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents, and design awards for a variety of products including the first 'slate' computer. Bill is coauthor of the book we are discussing in this program Designing Your New Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work.
Website: DesigningYour.Life
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THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: This program and Bill Burnett's work is really relevant for this time, when so many people are dissatisfied with their work and can't leave because of economic reasons or they just leave their jobs. Bill and his co-author, Dave Evans have have used scientific studies and have based their work on creating systems to help us discover what we want, have willingness to want to change and then see whatever we do as service to others. He says that is the basis of happiness and happiness in our work. He shares that it is important to take small steps to accomplish our goals. Bill says striving for perfection eliminates the many "betters" that can happen now. He says"make it good enough for now" and then keep noticing and keep making small improvements. He closed the program by saying "Design starts now. You can build the life you want." This reminds me of the first sutra in the first chapter in The Yoga Sutras, "Atha". Now is the auspicious time to begin.
DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: I really enjoyed our conversation about redesigning our work lives so that we can experience more meaning and satisfaction while at work. We discussed the science behind what makes people happy, with the biggest factors being relationships and doing something for the benefit of others. Bill Burnett gave listeners many ideas about how to begin the redesign process for their jobs, including the importance of reframing the way we think about our jobs so that we can see the impact we are having in the world. He also discussed the importance of not thinking our way forward, but rather building our way forward by making small changes.