#DesignThyselfApplying Design Principles

to Personal Growth

Lee-Sean Huang@leesean

http://www.skillshare.com/DesignThyself-Applying-Design-Principles-to-Personal-Growth/42321712/1585544573/

#3Visualize Your Process

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Clarify

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Simplify

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“Good design is as little design as possible”

https://www.vitsoe.com/us/about/good-design

DieterRams

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Visualize your desired end state

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“Talk about a dream, try to make it real.”

https://www.facebook.com/TheAcousticGuitarProject?group_id=0!filter=3

BruceSpringsteen

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Visualize the destination

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Visualize “done”

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Visualize the process

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done

the process?

Go low-tech

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#3Visualize Your Process

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#4Create a Cheat Sheet

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1. Have a defined scope and time span.2. Start small and fast. Break it down into chunks, missions, episodes, or quests.3. But have a big goal/epic quest in mind.4. Make it public. Make it social.5. Use existing forces, tendencies, habits.6. Build off what you know. 7. Restart something you have left behind.8. Make it emotional. FUN!9. Automate as much as you can. 10. Follow the freaks.11. It’s ok to cheat.

Project Cheat Sheet

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1. If you must choose, keep on doing, even if you are having trouble documenting.

2. Practice > Perfection

3. If you can’t bring yourself to blog, write about your feelings and why you aren’t blogging.

4. Use procrastination time to be creative.

5. Don’t overcommit.

Some Student Insights

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A mental shortcut that allows people to solve problems and make judgments quickly and efficiently.

A rule-of-thumb strategy.

Heuristic

#DesignThyself http://psychology.about.com/od/hindex/g/heuristic.htm

4 categories of tweets:

InspireConnectEntertainEducate

Tony Hsieh: ICEE

#DesignThyself http://mashable.com/2010/04/12/zappos-interview/

Deconstruction (of a skill to be learned into manageable component parts)

Identification (of likely failure points to be avoided in early training)

Selection (of the 20% of inputs that drive 80% of results)

Sequencing (ie. whether learning a skill in something other than the obvious order might speed mastery)

Stakes (which are necessary for motivation in the face of the temptation to quit)

Tim Ferriss: Meta-Learn DISSS

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make your cheat sheet

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#4Create a Cheat Sheet

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#DesignThyselfApplying Design Principles

to Personal Growth

Lee-Sean Huang@leesean

http://www.skillshare.com/DesignThyself-Applying-Design-Principles-to-Personal-Growth/42321712/1585544573/