How to Live a Meaningful Life - by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Designing Your Life return with a groundbreaking guide to transforming your daily routine into one brimming with joy, purpose, and meaning.

In a world grappling with major societal shifts and increasing isolation, it's easy to feel like nothing you do matters. Even when we're at the top of our game in our careers and have reached the personal milestones we've always dreamed about, so many of us still feel like something is missing, disconnected, and stuck. There must be more to life than simply surviving each day--but how do we uncover it?

Bestselling authors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, the "empowering" (Publishers Weekly) visionaries behind Stanford's renowned Life Design Lab, have already inspired millions of readers to use design thinking principles to craft lives and careers they love. Now, in How to Live a Meaningful Life, they take on the most profound design problem of all: how to make a life rich with meaning and purpose. Evolving their revolutionary framework, Burnett and Evans present the latest research on what makes life worth living, showing us how to bring wonder, coherence, flow, and community into our everyday experiences. Instead of cramming more into an already packed life, they give us the steps we need to extract more out of it, moment by moment.

Through actionable insights and with Burnett and Evans's signature compassion and warmth, How to Live a Meaningful Life equips you with the tools to turn your ordinary days into an extraordinary life today.

Review Quotes

"Burnett and Evans make the quest for meaning fun, actionable and approachable. An uplifting guide for seekers, How to Live a Meaningful Life draws on foundational concepts in the field of psychology, bringing you into greater alignment with your true nature and purpose. Clear and step-wise, the reader is invited to take stock and perhaps make a course correction when it comes to our most valuable resource, the direction of our lives. In a time of renewal and redirection, setting your own inner compass has never been more essential." -- Lisa Miller, Ph.D., Columbia University Professor and Author, The Awakened Brain; The New Science of Spiriutality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

"This book wrestles with an important question: is the quest for meaning a design problem people can actually work on? It's an invitation to everyone to use a design mindset to build more connection and more meaning in our everyday lives." --Professor David Kelley, Stanford

"This book isn't self-help--it's self-discovery. It will help you stop chasing meaning and start making meaning, one choice, one experiment, and one particularity at a time."--Guy Kawasaki, host of the Remarkable People podcast and chief evangelist of Canva

About the Author

Bill Burnett is the executive director of the Life Design Lab at Stanford University and an adjunct professor in mechanical engineering and design at Stanford. He is also the founder and managing director of the Designing Your Life Institute in Singapore.

Dave Evans is the cofounder of the Life Design Lab at Stanford University, adjunct lecturer, and cofounder of Electronic Arts.