A Joosr Guide to… Designing Your Life by Bill Burnet and Dave Evans

The first step to reframing failure is to understand that your life design plan is not finite. This means there is no chance of you ultimately failing at life. Remember, the design process has no ending: it is ongoing, changing, and ever-evolving. What’s more, you can succeed at failing—you just need to be able to acknowledge and categorize your failures, so that you can see the hidden learning opportunities.

To grok your life design choices, you need to stop thinking about the options, and instead actually live out one of them as if it is already happening.

feel less inclined to feel trapped in the future, as suddenly you are the source for endless possibilities.

don’t knock the grok until you’ve tried it.

To grok your life design choices, you need to stop thinking about the options, and instead actually live out one of them as if it is already happening.

Prototyping gives you a 360° view of the life you are designing

The prototyping stage is when you start to get realistic about your life design, albeit in a playful and curious manner.

Remember to think about these in terms of not just what you were doing, but who you were with, what the environment was like and any objects that were involved

Take a few moments each day to think about all the main activities you do and have done, and make a note of the times when you were most engaged and energized

There are three types of failure: screw-ups, weaknesses, and growth opportunities. Looking back over the past six months, identify any perceived failures, and write them down