Become a Design Thinker

Deciding to make a change in midlife is stressful. You want to talk to a lot of people to find the answer. You want a mentor to tell you what to do next. But it never happens. When deciding to change, you are alone. You have to make your decision alone.

In this episode, we will use the metaphor of a tightrope walker to see how we should make our go-or-not-go decision alone. Each step of a tightrope walker is a decision to make. There is very little tolerance for a wrong decision whether to stay where you are or move one step forward 

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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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You’re never too old or too late to seize an opportunity in a new arena. The key is maintaining the momentum to swing from where you are to where you aspire to be.

In midlife, it’s easy to fear that we’re too old or too late to make a significant change. We may think our best opportunities have already passed. However, the trapeze artist teaches us that it’s never too late. You may have missed some opportunities in the past, but as long as you keep swinging and holding on to your trapeze, new opportunities will come. The most important thing is keeping your momentum swinging between where you are and where you aspire to be. And, be actively patient to look for an appropriate moment to let go of your old self. By building your momentum to swing, you can build an evergreen career for yourself.

In this episode, we've created a practical guide to help you redefine the nature of your job and transform your current tasks into meaningful work. It's called "3 Steps to Reconstruct Your Daily Tasks into Meaningful Work." This guide will show you how to reframe your daily tasks and build your own rig without spending years figuring it out on your own.

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*This episode is inspired by Professor Herminia Ibarra’s book Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. It offers practical advice on how to start small and make incremental changes. 

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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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"But why does this happen to me? This is not my plan. I am not going in this direction."

We all have a goal. At least, in the past, I believe. Sometimes, we may have tried something. But the outcome is not something that we anticipate, we desire, and we expect. We may quit. We may sit still. We run away, or, we go back to our comfort zone. 

What’s the problem behind it?
 
In this episode, we will discuss how design thinker achieve their goals when the outcome is not according to our plan. 

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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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Your success is shown under the spotlight. Many of us enjoy the moment receiving applause and cheers from the audience. But these applauses and cheers do not mean we are getting better and guaranteeing the next success. This is because you may not aware that something is appearing under the spotlight simultaneously. It is your shadow, which will shape your mind and influence your next success. 

In this new episode, we will discuss how Design Thinking helps us to know our shadows and transform them into our performance – perform like a Master of Shadow Puppetry.

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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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*The name of this episode is inspired by the movie “The King of Masks” (1995) directed by Tian-Ming Wu. 

We build our skills through our past knowledge and experience. Our current skills may make us feel good, right now.

We may think that we are good at something right now, in our workplace, in our daily life.

But the world is changing.

What is our ability to adapt to the change?

It is our skills, in the past, but put them in a new arena.

In this episode, we will discuss how design thinking helps us to transfer our skills to a new arena to build our ability to change.

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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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In this episode, we will gain insight from high-altitude mountaineers when they are pursuing the summit under ever-changing conditions in the mountain.

We have our goals. We want to use what we have learned and what we have earned in the first part of our life journey to do something impactful to the world and meaningful to ourselves. 

We have a plan. We spend lots of our time and resources on achieving the goal.

We may think that we are ready to pursue our goal. 

However, when we step into the arena to work towards our goal, the situation is not as we expected.

Mountaineers face a similar situation. They spend their lifetime and resources to prepare for the climb. They have done a lot of training and practice to prepare for the summit. But once they step onto the mountain, the conditions are out of their expectation. It is severe and fierce. It is ever-changing. Some people die when they are pursuing their goals and never come back. 

What can we learn from successful mountaineers to achieve our goals?

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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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Design Thinkers bear the doer mindset. Design thinkers drive a change by action rather than dreaming or talking about it. However, excessive or premature action may result in undesirable situations, cause confusion, or hurt the people that you care about.

Firefighters perform their duties in life-and-death situations. If we examine carefully, we may find some similarities between the situation firefighters have to face and the problems design thinkers have to solve.

What insight we can get from firefighters when tackling complex problems? 

By wearing a Firefighter persona when you take any immediate action or pursue any plans, you can gain a different level of wisdom as a design thinker.  

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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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In the episode “Become a Hedgehog and a Fox (Part Two)”, we have discussed the “Hedgehog Concept” by Jim Collins. You have to find out what you are good at, turn it into one great thing and become the best in the world. You have to discover your seed of greatness and cultivate it. We have discussed some methods by which design thinking can help you discover your seed of greatness. Today, we will discuss how we can cultivate our seed of greatness.

Starting from this episode, we will use the Persona approach to discover more about who we are and who we could be. The Persona today is called Earthy Adam. What will Earthy Adam do to cultivate our seed of greatness?

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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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 “Some people never become who they are; they stop trusting in themselves; they conform to the tastes of others, and they end up wearing a mask that hides their true nature.”

― Robert Greene 

Becoming great means finding the seed of greatness in your heart and making it grow. Everyone is gifted, but gifted differently. 

Ancient Greek poet Pindar mentioned, “Become who you are by learning who you are.” Becoming who you are is an action to pursue something that you are good at and turn it into a great thing. But the first step is about “learning who you are”

In this episode, we ask two important questions:

1.       Why does “becoming who you are” is important to you?

2.       How can you “learn who you are” by design thinking?

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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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“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” 
― Isaiah Berlin.

Jim Collins, in his book Good to Great, quoted the story of “The Hedgehog and the Fox” from Isaiah Berlin’s essay. Jim said that we have to understand what our competence could become the best in the world, like a hedgehog. This is Jim’s “Hedgehog Concept”. 

Fox can be good at many things. But Hedgehog is great at one thing. From Good to Great, Jim describes a transformation, which transforms us from a fox to a hedgehog. How does it relate to us as Design Thinkers?

We continue the insights from the story of “The Hedgehog and the Fox” in this episode. 

Design thinking is a journey of self-discovery, repeated action, evaluation of actions, and transformation of actions to a bigger purpose. Listen to the episode to start becoming great today.

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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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