Bill Burnett

And that's what I think, that's why I think a design strategy for the future is more,

more viable.

It's not perfect, but it does set you up to be available to things as they occur because you're exercising your curiosity and you're trying lots of things.

It's more resilient, I guess, than a planning strategy.

Well, and hope, you know, but if you take a designer's mindset, right, curiosity, wonder, availability, if you're thinking this way, then...

you don't end up sort of drifting.

What I've run into is a lot of people in their 30s and 40s, and they've ended up somewhere.

I ended up in high tech, but I don't really like it.

I ended up a lawyer, but I only did that because my mom wanted me to be a lawyer, or I ended up somewhere.

There's a wonderful professor, Ruth Chang at Rutgers, who says people are drifters,

or they're intentional.

And what we're arguing is having some intention.

Where do I wanna go?

I don't exactly know what the destination is, but I know how I wanna feel, and I know how I wanna think about it.

And then if I'm fully engaged in this journey,

But, you know, detached from, I can't control the outcomes.

So fully engaged and calmly detached.

I can journey into the future and I won't end up someplace by accident.

And you know, you've met these people, right?

And they're like, I don't really want to be a lawyer, but my dad was a lawyer.