This technique isnât guaranteed (no such techniques are), but you can see how the intention here is to allow your alternate forms of knowingâemotional, spiritual, social, intuitiveâto have some room to express themselves to you, and thereby complement the evaluative, cognitive knowing, which, if youâre like most of us, is the dominant form of thinking and choosing you rely on.
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I challenged myself over the course of a single year to write down, as accurately as I could recall, the details of at least one session every week (or every other week) when something interesting caught my eye, when I had the sense that the Buddhist element was in play. Sometimes this influence was overt: people might ask me about meditation technique, or I might spontaneously bring something I had learned from Buddhism into the conversation. And sometimes it was only a feeling: I might find myself reaching beyond traditional analysis to help someone grasp an alternative perspective on whatever issue was troubling them.
I couldnât latch on to a thought and then be carried by it as it moved into new territory. To do that, I think you need a narrative self inside you connecting you with experience, telling you how you fit into the subjective encounter with what youâre seeing and attaching whatever significance it might hold for you.
Designing Your Life: Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Introduction: Life by Design
âReframing is one of the most important mind-sets of a designer. Many great innovations get started in a reframe. In design thinking we always say, âDonât start with the problem, start with the people, start with empathy.â Once we have empathy for the people who will be using our products, we define our point of view, brainstorm, and start prototyping to discover what we donât yet know about the problem. This typically results in a reframe, sometimes also called a pivot. A reframe is when we take new information about the problem, restate our point of view, and start thinking and prototyping again.
The key is to remember that imagined choices donât actually exist, because theyâre not actionable. Weâre not trying to live a fantasy life; weâre trying to design a real and livable life. If we burdened ourselves with knowing everything about our decisions and discovering every option possible (which, of course, you should do if youâre going to make âthe best choiceâ), weâd never decide. In life design we know that there are countless possibilities but arenât stymied by that fact. We revel in exploring a few possibilities, then taking action by starting with a choice.
Itâs not about finding what you can do better than others, but about finding what you can do exceptionally well relative to other ways you could expend yourself.