{"id":10242,"date":"2020-09-24T15:34:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T15:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/?page_id=10242"},"modified":"2025-03-05T18:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:41:53","slug":"life-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/life-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Design"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Life Design is an innovative, hands-on process for tackling life's <\/b>transitions<\/b><\/span> and discovering amazing possibilities.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Its engaging <\/b>methodology<\/b><\/span> and fun tools will help you get unstuck and build a meaningful life.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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The WCSU Career Success Center\u00a0now\u00a0has workshops and classes that can teach you the essentials of\u00a0Designing Your Life\u00a0(or \u201cDYL\u201d)\u00a0and\u00a0move forward with a fun testing ground to bring your priorities into focus. Pioneered by Stanford design faculty,\u00a0these methods have been\u00a0publicized in best-selling books\u00a0by professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the basics of Life Design, you can learn how proven design-thinking mindsets like curiosity, trying stuff\/prototyping, reframing problems, and asking for help (aka collaboration) can help you design and build your career in the face of all the unknowns.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Life design is a FUN testing ground to bring your priorities into focus:<\/span><\/p>\n

Work, Play, Love, and Health<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Let your curiosity run wild, discover new perspectives and prototype new life experiences<\/span><\/p>\n

Life Design is an interactive process that helps you:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Know yourself<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Empathize with situations<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Challenge assumptions<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Redefine problems<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Identify alternative solutions<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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For Life Design, we start with the most challenging project you face: YOUR CAREER<\/b><\/span>; and what to do with your life!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Design thinking is a creative process used by the worlds most successful organizations to solve and transform challenging problems by building a way forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s about getting unstuck. Learn how dysfunctional thinking holds you back. Life design gives you options to build your way forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your mindsets are important! Be curious. Try stuff. Reframe problems. Know that it\u2019s a process. <\/span>Build your design team and ask for help<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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