Become a Design Thinker

Skills are about how well you can apply your knowledge in practice. Anyone can learn and apply a skill in one narrow context. But what makes us become outstanding and significant is the ability to transplant that skill to a new context and transcend it to a higher level of work.

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Become a Design Thinker podcast serves individuals who believe in their ability to create positive change and refuse to be put in passive or vulnerable positions when it comes to shaping their future.

Design thinking empowers you to approach problems from a fresh perspective. By adopting this designer’s mindset, you can develop innovative solutions that drive meaningful impact. Our goal is to integrate design thinking with various management concepts, making it applicable to your daily work and life.

Become the designer of your work, your family, and your life. You have the power to design a future that is better than today!!

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How can we transform our newly acquired knowledge into our new competitive edge?

In our workplace, knowledge is not what we know. It is what we can do with what we know, how reliably we can do it, and how well we can teach others to do it. Today, we will answer this question from 3 aspects of knowledge transformation.

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Become a Design Thinker podcast serves individuals who believe in their ability to create positive change and refuse to be put in passive or vulnerable positions when it comes to shaping their future.

Design thinking empowers you to approach problems from a fresh perspective. By adopting this designer’s mindset, you can develop innovative solutions that drive meaningful impact. Our goal is to integrate design thinking with various management concepts, making it applicable to your daily work and life.

Become the designer of your work, your family, and your life. You have the power to design a future that is better than today!!

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After we have stepped out of our comfort zone, we may suddenly open up to a wide and clear spectrum. It seems like we can go in any direction. The problem is, where should we go?

To navigate, our strategy is to identify our Capability Asset to explore our adjacent possibilities. 

Today, we will touch base on three of those Capability Assets: Knowledge, Experience, and Skills.

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Become a Design Thinker podcast serves individuals who believe in their ability to create positive change and refuse to be put in passive or vulnerable positions when it comes to shaping their future.

Design thinking empowers you to approach problems from a fresh perspective. By adopting this designer’s mindset, you can develop innovative solutions that drive meaningful impact. Our goal is to integrate design thinking with various management concepts, making it applicable to your daily work and life.

Become the designer of your work, your family, and your life. You have the power to design a future that is better than today!!

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Everyone may have different strongholds that hold up our growth. These strongholds would blind our self-awareness, lead us to follow the repeated pattern, and lock us in our comfort zone. 

Today, we have generalized different types of strongholds and discussed the strategies to tear them down.

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Become a Design Thinker podcast serves individuals who believe in their ability to create positive change and refuse to be put in passive or vulnerable positions when it comes to shaping their future.

Design thinking empowers you to approach problems from a fresh perspective. By adopting this designer’s mindset, you can develop innovative solutions that drive meaningful impact. Our goal is to integrate design thinking with various management concepts, making it applicable to your daily work and life.

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Our old self is our biggest enemy to fight against if we decide to depart from our comfort zone. 

We strongly believe our previous success is built on our belief system that drives our daily decision-making process. We used to believe that we had made the best choice. Although we may sometimes regret it, we still believe that our own mind is our best partner to make decisions for us. Our ME stronghold is standing behind us, no matter how hard we want to move forward, it either holds us back or pushes us to an undesirable decision. 

What are these ME-strongholds? 

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Become a Design Thinker podcast serves individuals who believe in their ability to create positive change and refuse to be put in passive or vulnerable positions when it comes to shaping their future.

Design thinking empowers you to approach problems from a fresh perspective. By adopting this designer’s mindset, you can develop innovative solutions that drive meaningful impact. Our goal is to integrate design thinking with various management concepts, making it applicable to your daily work and life.

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Fear influences our choices. We fear uncertainty. This dictates us choosing a familiar path and reduces our risk exposure. The consequence of not taking risks will limit our identity rebuilding. Fear shrinks vision and opportunity.

Therefore, if we want to build an identity that we aspire to be, we need to control our risk exposure by design. We call this:

Design our Risk Appetite.

A balanced risk appetite is crucial for our identity health. Our identity health is about having the courage to take risks to break down who we are and break through our limitations without losing our true identity. We should create a balanced risk appetite by design. 

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Become a Design Thinker podcast serves individuals who believe in their ability to create positive change and refuse to be put in passive or vulnerable positions when it comes to shaping their future.

Design thinking empowers you to approach problems from a fresh perspective. By adopting this designer’s mindset, you can develop innovative solutions that drive meaningful impact. Our goal is to integrate design thinking with various management concepts, making it applicable to your daily work and life.

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Our sunk cost stronghold is like an anchor that holds us from departing from our comfort zone. To depart, to start a new journey, we need to bring along our assets. But the problem is, our anchors and our assets sometimes look very similar.

In this episode, we will discuss how to distinguish your anchor and asset, and take respective actions on them.

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Become a Design Thinker podcast serves individuals who believe in their ability to create positive change and refuse to be put in passive or vulnerable positions when it comes to shaping their future.

Design thinking empowers you to approach problems from a fresh perspective. By adopting this designer’s mindset, you can develop innovative solutions that drive meaningful impact. Our goal is to integrate design thinking with various management concepts, making it applicable to your daily work and life.

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Sunk cost is the emotional debt from when we built our first act. 

Today, we’re going to look into a critical factor that will hold us back, keep us pinned to that foundation even when we know it’s time to move - The Sunk Cost Stronghold.

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Become a Design Thinker podcast serves individuals who believe in their ability to create positive change and refuse to be put in passive or vulnerable positions when it comes to shaping their future.

Design thinking empowers you to approach problems from a fresh perspective. By adopting this designer’s mindset, you can develop innovative solutions that drive meaningful impact. Our goal is to integrate design thinking with various management concepts, making it applicable to your daily work and life.

Become the designer of your work, your family, and your life. You have the power to design a future that is better than today!!

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We  launch the theme in 2026: 

Design Your Second Act

"Design your Second Act" is a design process to help you navigate from a stagnation stage to becoming significant in your world.

And we call it a design process because you can't just think your way there. You can't solve a new future with the old playbook. Design starts with empathy—for yourself and the problem you want to solve. It involves research, learning, prototyping, testing, and multiplying. You aren't just jumping ship; you're the architect of your future self, thoughtfully building your next significant chapter by design. 

Most people try to solve their life problems with the same thinking that created them. To reinvent yourself, you must stop being a 'Manager' of your past and start being the 'Designer' of your future. 

Stop managing your past. Start designing your future.

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Become a Design Thinker podcast serves individuals who believe in their ability to create positive change and refuse to be put in passive or vulnerable positions when it comes to shaping their future.

Design thinking empowers you to approach problems from a fresh perspective. By adopting this designer’s mindset, you can develop innovative solutions that drive meaningful impact. Our goal is to integrate design thinking with various management concepts, making it applicable to your daily work and life.

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We are coming to the end of 2025. Today, we will have a special episode - a reprise of our episodes in 2025.

If you want to download the diagram for the 4-stages of transformation, here is the download link:

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Become a Design Thinker podcast serves individuals who believe in their ability to create positive change and refuse to be put in passive or vulnerable positions when it comes to shaping their future.

Design thinking empowers you to approach problems from a fresh perspective. By adopting this designer’s mindset, you can develop innovative solutions that drive meaningful impact. Our goal is to integrate design thinking with various management concepts, making it applicable to your daily work and life.

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