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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-lived, Joyous Life (Book Review)

by Gavin Ferriby on 2018-01-30T16:12:48-05:00 in Communications, Philosophy, Psychology | 0 Comments

Designing Your Life dustjacketDesigning your Life: How to Build a Well-lived, Joyous Life.  By Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.  New York: Knopf, 2017.  238p. ISBN 978-1-101-87532-2  List: $24.95

The library doesn't own a copy -- because you really should buy your own copy (or download it). This is a book with directions, exercises, useful "try stuff" pages that invite margin notations, doodles, objections, and questions.  The authors reframe a lot of dysfunctional beliefs: you won't have one perfect life, rather:" you can have multiple plans and lives with you; we judge our life by the outcome, rather: life is a process, not an outcome. Their chapters, "How not to find a job" and "Designing your dream job" should be required reading for all college seniors --example: dysfunctional belief: I am looking for a job; reframe: I am pursuing a number of offers." Be curious. Try stuff. Reframe your dysfunctional beliefs. Learn that happiness is a process, too. There is no right choice --there is only good choosing. ---Read More


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