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Bill Burnett

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Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

Yeah.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

It's a way of thinking about how to design into the future.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

Designers are always making prototypes.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

They're always building new stuff.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

When I was at Apple, I was at Apple for seven years, and we were doing the first laptops.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

We just built lots of prototypes to figure out what the heck a laptop was, because it hadn't been invented yet.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

So get curious is the energy that drives you.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

Curiosity is an intrinsic motivation.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

Humans are just naturally curious people.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

So re-engage your curiosity.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

Get curious.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

Talk to people, which is get out in the world.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

You're going to find meaning and purpose in the world with other people.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

It's almost never found in isolation.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

So get curious.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

Talk to people.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

Try stuff, which is the prototyping thing.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

It turns out you can prototype.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

As a designer, I prototype lots of things to sort of figure out my designs, but you can prototype anything in your life with a

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

prototype conversation, talk to somebody who's already doing what you're doing or what you're thinking of doing.