斯坦福大学人生实验室的创始人比尔•博内特和戴夫•伊万斯不仅是硅谷著名的创新者，同时也是知名的人生设计师——他们开设的人生设计课是斯坦福大学近几年极受欢迎的课程。
博内特教授和伊万斯教授认为，人生并不存在唯一的最优解，人生也不可能被完美规划。正如设计师不会一味“思考”未来而是主动去创造未来一样，你需要利用设计思维模式，找到自己的生活目标，集中精力，为自己创造更多的可能性，大胆尝试，这样才有可能改变命运。
Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve.
In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.
帮你认识挖掘属于你的多重潜能 有些人，他们注定没有“命中注定的职业”，注定无法成为专家型人才，但他们却是天生的跨界高手，具有从事多种“职业”的潜能。他们能产生创意，也能快速学习具有极强的适应性，而这是未来社会的生存条件。
现身说法的同时助你找准位置 埃米莉用轻松的笔调讲述自己成为多相潜能者的过程，具有很强的可读性，书末还列举了我们耳熟能详的一些多相潜能者，以及适合多相潜能者发展的跨学科领域清单，也许你在这个清单中就能找到属于你的完美位置。
What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a familiar question we’re all asked as kids. While seemingly harmless, the question has unintended consequences. It can make you feel like you need to choose one job, one passion, one thing to be about. Guess what? You don’t.
Having a lot of different interests, projects and curiosities doesn’t make you a “jack-of-all-trades, master of none.” Your endless curiosity doesn’t mean you are broken or flaky. What you are is a multipotentialite: someone with many interests and creative pursuits. And that is actually your biggest strength.
人们都想“变得更好”，丹尼尔·科伊尔深入挖掘了这种贪念的核心。书中罗列了大量鲜活的生活实例，真是一次令人惊叹的阅读之旅。
全新诠释天才的“一万小时法则”
大声告诉你：“了解异类还不够，我们的目标是成为异类!”
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.
Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism.
Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything.
