Are You Designing Your Life or Just Reacting to It? | Joy-Yafit Pascal

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Your work with design thinking is fascinating because we usually associate it with business innovation and creative solution, but you apply those ideas to life.

Can we really design a meaningful life while still accepting that uncertainties and unexpected circumstances are part of it?

So the design thinking that we use in the corporate world, we use it for developing new products or new services we want to develop, and there is a very clear methodology how to do it.

It is a seven steps methodologies, and what I realize is that if we take the same steps for our personal developments, we- it is exactly the same.

So just as an example, the first step of design thinking sprint, no matter where you do it, for what topic you do it, for which problem you want to solve, it's a lot about the understanding.

We invest a lot of time in design thinking sprints in understanding, understanding the prod- the problem, understanding what we need to solve, understanding what are the pain points, understanding the end consumer, what they need.

So we spend a lot of time in the understand phase.

But you know, it is the same with our own life.

Before we are doing any radical change, let's first understand what's wrong.

Let's, let's first understand what do we need, what we are missing, what needs to be there to wa- to make us wake up in the morning with a smile.

What, what is it? Maybe it doesn't need to be necessarily a radical change.

Maybe we are just bored and we need a nice new hobby.

Maybe for years we wanted to learn to play a guitar and we never did the one phone call and schedule the first class, you know? So not always the change come from a radical thing, but really taking the time, like in design thinking sprint, to understand yourself, understand your problem, understand what is missing, understanding where is your passion, what do you wish for, what will support you.

And only when you understand, maybe you can also ask yourself even why I want that, like to really be connected to what you want.

You know, it's like in Google Maps, when you need to get to some place, you need to put an address, right? So that the navigation system will know to take you to that place.

It's the same with ourself and our brain.

In order to get to somewhere, we need to put there an address.

We need to know where to aim for.

So before, we need to understand what we want.

So really taking the time to ask ourself the questions, no matter how much time it takes, a year even, or even a few years, just to wake up in the morning with the, with the questions, go to sleep with the question, what will make me happy now? What will make me wake up with a smile? What exactly I don't like about this work? Is it the people I don't like? Is it my manager I don't like? Do I don't like the job itself? Do I just don't like how much they pay me and I want to be- get paid more, you know? So really go deep with yourself to understand yourself and understand what needs to be there.

Yeah.

Thank you for that.