Designing Your Life Quotes

“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.”
― Bill Burnett, Dave Evans, Designing Your Life: Build the Perfect Career, Step by Step

“What makes an effective community is not having people in it with the right expertise or information. What makes it work is people with the right intention and presence. It is most helpful to be with people who are trying to connect the dots and live in coherence with themselves and the world in an honest way.”
― Bill Burnett, Dave Evans, Designing Your Life: Build the Perfect Career, Step by Step

“The community isn’t just gathering for the ad hoc purpose of getting a project done or finishing reading the book together—it gathers because its participants agree that a life lived in a community-supported way is a better designed life, and they stick with it.”
― Bill Burnett, Dave Evans, Designing Your Life: Build the Perfect Career, Step by Step