Designing Your Work Life Quotes

“Start small, set the bar low, and try something.”
― Bill Burnett, Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work

“Be curious. Get curious, about people, work, and the world, because a designer always starts with a beginner’s mind and asks “Why?” Curiosity is your natural human state, and it is the source of the energy you need to get started and get out and meet people who are interesting. Curiosity is the most important mind-set of a designer, because it drives inquiry and action and is the start of almost all design activities. Leave your rational skeptic at home (she’ll come in handy later when you need to evaluate all of your wonderful options) and get curious. It is a very interesting world out there! And when you’re sincerely interested in people and things (i.e., curious), people are happy to engage with you. Remember—interested is interesting.”
― Bill Burnett, Designing Your New Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness--and a New Freedom--at Work

“Happiness is love. Full stop.”
― Bill Burnett, Designing Your Work Life: The #1 New York Times bestseller for building the perfect career

“Renewing and Repairing things • Sustaining and Supporting things • Creating New-New things”
― Bill Burnett, Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work

“The mind-sets are: curiosity, bias to action, reframing, awareness, radical collaboration, and—the bonus—storytelling.”
― Bill Burnett, Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work

“Yet most jobs are built around tasks to get done and transactions to manage, and most managers aren’t comfortable talking about meaning and impact. When you become the designer of your work life, you can help your boss and your company make your job the job you want.”
― Bill Burnett, Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work