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Podcast: Success for the Athletic-Minded Man
Episode: #124 Dysfunctional Thinking and How to Be Happy: Using Design Thinking To Get Out Of Your Rut with Stanford Professor and Author Bill Burnett
Description: Why following your passion doesn’t work. Today I bring you, Bill Burnett. After years of drawing cars and airplanes under his grandmother’s sewing machine, Bill went off to the Stanford and discovered that there were people in the world who did this kind of thing every day (without the sewing machine) and they were called designers. Bill is the Executive Director of the Design Program 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 the award-winning Apple PowerBooks to the...