This is fantastic advice, your insight is something I've felt but couldn't verbalize.
"When someone becomes successful...We look for the story that explains how success, for them, was perhaps inevitable."
The above quote stood out to me personally. The way I understand it is that we seek the narrative of the successful person when we should be seeking the design. The design is often more mundane and takes longer to explain. Hearing enough stories of successful narratives we become obsessed thinking that if we could just shape the right narrative we too would be successful.
Enjoyed this, and I hope you keep exploring applying design thinking to the task of living one’s life. Also, thanks for introducing me to Bokononism! May have to read cat’s cradle now.
This is fantastic advice, your insight is something I've felt but couldn't verbalize.
"When someone becomes successful...We look for the story that explains how success, for them, was perhaps inevitable."
The above quote stood out to me personally. The way I understand it is that we seek the narrative of the successful person when we should be seeking the design. The design is often more mundane and takes longer to explain. Hearing enough stories of successful narratives we become obsessed thinking that if we could just shape the right narrative we too would be successful.
Enjoyed this, and I hope you keep exploring applying design thinking to the task of living one’s life. Also, thanks for introducing me to Bokononism! May have to read cat’s cradle now.