When you read a book (or meet a person), if you feel like you’ve been understood, that is an amazing feeling, especially in world full of clutter and chaos, where we strive to find our own identity ourselves.

So, what do you feel when you get to that?

Should you feel like you found the plug that fits the plug point? That you found answers you are looking for to feed the hypothesis you have in your head.

Not really.

On the contrary, it challenges you and it lets you question yourself. You can relate to it, but it stretches your thinking.

But more importantly, some of the good ones I found to provide a framework to think, so that a lot of questions you already have related to several things, fits into different parts of that framework and you start seeing connections.

Here is what I have for you.

One such book that I read recently, which challenged my thinking and made me a better person than I was, before I read it!

We use design thinking for a lot of things (such as product design), but how does it apply to life and career design?

“Design your life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans from Life Design Lab at Standford University.

Here are some of my favourite quotes from this…

–           “People are not one-dimensional beings; there are multiple paths you could take and multiple lives you could live. It is a matter of figuring out what is next”
– “If you ordered the burger, stop staring at the menu. You are going to eat it anyway”
– “Would you buy a car without a test drive, similarly, would you make a life choice without testing it?”

Without spoiler alert, here is an invitation to read it.

And if you a more audio person than a reader, I also found the full audiobook on youtube.