Book · 2016 · Self-Help
Designing Your Life
How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
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And by the way, the professors have also written a book called Designing Your Life.
Questions about Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
Who recommends Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans on podcasts?
Mel Robbins (2 episodes) and Ali Abdaal (1 episode) have recommended Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans on podcasts. In all, 3 people brought it up across 3 podcasts (2 people recommended it).
Which podcasts mention Designing Your Life the most?
The Mel Robbins Podcast (2 episodes), My First Million (1 episode) and The Daily Stoic (1 episode).
Is Designing Your Life recommended, or only discussed?
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans was recommended in 3 episodes and discussed without a recommendation in 1 episode, as of 2026-05-14.
What do people say about Designing Your Life?
Mel Robbins on The Mel Robbins Podcast (2025-11-03): "And by the way, the professors have also written a book called Designing Your Life."
When was Designing Your Life last mentioned on a podcast?
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans was last recommended on The Mel Robbins Podcast by Mel Robbins on 2026-05-14.
The best things said about it
The most helpful exercise I've ever found for this is something called The Odyssey Plan from the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and another guy who are Stanford professors. Basically, the idea is that you imagine your life three to five years in the future if you continued down your current path, and you write out what that.
Have you seen design your life is that what it's called yeah designing your life it's like a book by like you know it hits all the check marks where it's like a Harvard psychologist who spent 30 years studying happiness and lifestyle design Stanford I think yeah yeah like writes a book on this.
Where and when it comes up
Most episodes, by podcast
Why people recommend it
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans is a practical guide written by two Stanford professors who apply design thinking principles to the challenge of career navigation and personal fulfillment. On The Mel Robbins Podcast, Mel Robbins referenced the authors to discuss effective career change strategies and the importance of prototyping new paths, noting that the Stanford course has helped students for decades. Robbins also mentioned that the professors compiled their methodology into a book. Similarly, Ali Abdaal recommended the text on The Daily Stoic, highlighting a particularly helpful exercise known as the Odyssey Plan, which encourages individuals to vividly imagine multiple distinct trajectories for their lives over a three-to-five-year horizon. Sam Parr also brought up the book on My First Million while discussing popular lifestyle design guides and companion journals that help individuals organize their goals. Across these podcast episodes, speakers emphasized that life design is an iterative process requiring curiosity, reframing unhelpful beliefs, and actively testing different hypotheses about what constitutes a meaningful career and a satisfying existence, making the book a vital resource for anyone feeling stuck or uncertain about their future.
Every mention
Mel Robbins And by the way, the professors have also written a book called Designing Your Life. 2
“Two professors from Stanford, their names are Dave Evans and Bill Burnett. They have created this incredible course at Stanford called Designing Your Life. They have been teaching this course for over two decades. It is a rigorous method that helps you create the next chapter of your life. And it's so effective that it is now taught this curriculum,”
“And by the way, the professors have also written a book called Designing Your Life.”
Ali Abdaal The most helpful exercise I've ever found for this is something called The Odyssey Plan from the book Desig… 1
“The most helpful exercise I've ever found for this is something called The Odyssey Plan from the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and another guy who are Stanford professors. Basically, the idea is that you imagine your life three to five years in the future if you continued down your current path, and you write out what that”
Sam Parr have you seen design your life is that what it's called yeah designing your life it's like a book by like y… 1
“have you seen design your life is that what it's called yeah designing your life it's like a book by like you know it hits all the check marks where it's like a Harvard psychologist who spent 30 years studying happiness and lifestyle design Stanford I think yeah yeah like writes a book on this”
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Well, a lot of the books now are having like handbooks, which I actually think, I think those are cool. Uh, like, uh, I know that, um, there's design your life, which was that Stanford course.”