Media Center: ‘Designing Your Life’ by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

Media Center: ‘Designing Your Life’ by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

WHO: Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

WHAT: DESIGNING YOUR LIFE:
How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

WHEN: Published by Knopf September 20, 2016

WHERE: The authors teach a hugely successful course at Stanford University.

WHY: “Empowering…This book will easily earn a place among career-finding classics.
“Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Burnett and Evans present a book based on their popular class of the same name at Stanford University. At the center of their philosophy is the idea that people need a process — a design — to make any sort of significant life change. After encouraging readers to unflinchingly examine their own views of work and life, the authors advise readers to undertake ‘prototyping,’ a method for exploring new life directions in manageable and realistic ways.
“A key tool is creating a ‘Good Time Journal,’ an outline of the times when readers felt most engaged and energized. What their plan has no room for, however, is agonizing over paths not taken. ‘The fourth step in the process is to let go,’ the authors state. Perhaps the book’s most important lesson is that the only failure is settling for a life that makes one unhappy. With useful fact-finding exercises, an empathetic tone, and sensible advice, this book will easily earn a place among career-finding classics.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“One of the best books on how to build a secure and fruitful future.”
—Deborah Bigelow, LIBRARY JOURNAL

Jacket photo
Media Resources:
About the book and authors | Bill Burnett’s Author tour | Dave Evans’s Author tour | Read an excerpt | Download the jacket | Download photo of (from left) Burnett and Evans | Download photo of Bill Burnett | Download photo of Dave Evans

Knopf. 238 pages. $24.95 ISBN 978-1-101-87532-2

Publicist for this title:
Erinn Hartman | 212-572-2345 | ehartman@penguinrandomhouse.com