In the fourth instalment of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Ashish Goel, author of Drawing on Courage: Risks Worth Taking and Stands Worth Making discusses the life canvas, inspirations, insights, and sources for him to publish his most recent book. Published as a d.school guide.

Ashish forms a strong case for courage, the depth of courage, which is often only granted thankful or cursory visitations, is vast and the source of a-lot of power. Courage plays a role in learning, growth and development, and allows us to live fuller lives individually and collectively. From examples of every day life to decisions in the big-tech business realms: This sources and the universality of approaches to risk; this conversation offers a great taster for the themes discussed in his most recent book and d.school guide. For example fears, values form a scaffold from which to build an action.

Ashish Goel is a designer, teacher and entrepreneur. He is a former teaching fellow at the Stanford d.school where he taught classes on design thinking, digital product design and mapmaking. He is also the former head of design at Zomato (India's Doordash and Yelp rolled into one!). He is the author of a new book, Drawing on Courage: Risks Worth Taking and Stands Worth Making, part of a series of guides being published by the Stanford d.school.

He advises tech companies in the art and science of product design and is drawing on his courage by building Boca, an D2C sparkling water business based in India.

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