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Bill Burnett and Dave Evans on How to Thrive and Find Happiness at Work

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans on How to Thrive and Find Happiness at Work

Released Thursday, 19th March 2020
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Bill Burnett and Dave Evans on How to Thrive and Find Happiness at Work

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans on How to Thrive and Find Happiness at Work

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans on How to Thrive and Find Happiness at Work

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans on How to Thrive and Find Happiness at Work

Thursday, 19th March 2020
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Over a forty-year span of working forty hours a week, which most of us will do, we will spend eighty-thousand hours in what poll after poll shows that almost seventy percent of the employed are disengaged. Globally, almost 85 percent are unhappy and unhappy with work likely means unhappy with life. Is this the way it has to be? It is work. Well, the answer is delightfully an unequivocal no. Bill Burnett is the executive director of the Stanford Design Program, and was a product leader for Apple's groundbreaking PowerBook business. He directs the undergraduate and graduate program in design at Stanford. Dave Evans is the co-director of the Stanford Life Design Lab, and a cofounder of Electronic Arts, one of the world's largest interactive entertainment companies. He holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from StanfordLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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