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Curious Minds at Work

263 EpisodesProduced by Gayle AllenWebsite

Want to get better at work? At managing others? Managing yourself? Gayle Allen interviews experts who take your performance to the next level. Each episode features a book with insights to help you achieve your goals.

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CM 003: Bernie Roth on How to Design a Life

Bernie Roth is a Professor of Engineering and the Academic Director and Co-founder of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school) at Stanford University. A leader of international workshops on creativity and design thinking, Bernie is the author of the book, The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life.

Bernie talks about what it means to apply design principles to create a life well lived. His focus is on personal transformation and empowerment.

Things you will learn in this episode include:

the importance of how we see the world
the danger of having a reason for doing something
how a bias toward action can overcome fear
the answer to what is holding us back from learning, changing, and growing
how methods for reframing and asking good questions can help us figure out the actual problems we are trying to solve
ways to get unstuck
how the language we use can empower or disempower us
how teams and collaboration help us relate differently to one another and our work
the shift of design thinking from object-centered to human-centered
the origins and focus of his popular Designer in Society course for the d.school
how much physical space influences our mindsets, our relationships, and the ways we work and collaborate

Bernie also talks about how his work has changed the way he teaches. He is always striving to find ways to empower his students.

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Make Space by Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft

Designer in Society course

The Human Potential Movement

The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill

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