Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

by Bill Burnett

Your life is not a thing, it’s an experience; the fun comes from designing and enjoying the experience.

What people need is a process—a design process—for figuring out what they want, whom they want to grow into, and how to create a life they love.

And the research shows that, for most people, passion comes after they try something, discover they like it, and develop mastery—not before.

Because in life design, if it’s not actionable, it’s not a problem. Let’s repeat that. If it’s not actionable, it’s not a problem. It’s a situation, a circumstance, a fact of life. It may be a drag (so to speak), but, like gravity, it’s not a problem that can be solved.