Bill Burnett

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693 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 23 Feb

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Something You Should Know · Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life · 23 Feb 2026 podcast

I mean, that's crazy.

But you can start to think about how do I take what I've got

except where I'm at, and move towards something that does feel a little bit more meaningful.

how you do it.

Well, let's, let's take a couple of simple exercises.

And one that I really like is this idea of, um, putting on your wonder glasses, we call it.

And it's really simple.

So curiosity is one of the mindsets of a designer, but you add curiosity plus mystery, like, oh, there's mystery in the world.

I don't know why.

I don't know how roses get so red.

I don't know.

You know, I don't really know why the sunset has a green flash at the end.

So, um,

Curiosity plus mystery equals wonder, and wonder is that sense of awe or just sort of the joy at looking at a moment of a sunset or a beautiful flower or whatever.

Walk around the world just not noticing things.

Take five minutes, literally five minutes.

Put on your wonder glasses.

So seeing the world, looking for wonder.

something wondrous, something awe-inspiring, something wonderful.

And it'll occur in a simple, like I walked from my house to the train, about four blocks, I was walking there the other day, and it's the middle of winter here, and all of a sudden there was this gorgeous purple flower in somebody's front garden that I hadn't noticed.

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