Dave Evans 

Designing Your Life

“The big killjoy to the joy of life is fear.”

“You have to go from the fear of missing out, to the joy of missing out.”

“Of course you’re missing out, if you’re not missing out, you’re not paying attention.”

“It’s nice to live from plenty rather than scarcity.” 

“You can’t solve a problem you’re not willing to have.”

“If ‘full humanness’ means releasing what you don’t have the opportunity to fully become, this is in order to be fully present to what you can become.”

“Life isn’t about getting what you want, it’s about wanting what you’ve got and living fully into it.”

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About Dave

Dave Evans has a long history in innovation. He was part of Apple in the early days, where he led the first mouse team and introduced laser printing to the masses. Next, he was a co-founder of Electronic Arts and became the company’s first VP of Talent. After fifteen successful years as a tech executive, Dave went out on his own as a management consultant assisting both startups and multi-nationals in strategy, marketing, and corporate culture formation. Along the way, Dave discovered his real passion is to help people discern and build the life they really want. That led Dave to co-found the Stanford Life Design Lab with Bill Burnett in 2007 with the mission of applying the innovation principles of design thinking to the wicked problem of designing your life. The Life Design Lab has enjoyed great success at Stanford and is now expanding broadly across higher education.  Bill and Dave’s 2016 book, Designing Your Life, How to Build a Well-Lived and Joyful Life, is a NY Times #1 bestseller, available in 23 languages worldwide.