The Rich Roll Podcast · 2026-03-16 · 116 min · 23,427 words

Stanford Professors Bill Burnett & Dave Evans On How To Design A Meaningful Life

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This is the greatest crisis of meaning in the history of the species. If you want to live more meaningfully, we can help you with that. Meaning is that which Dave Evitts and Bill Burnett are the founders of the Life Design Lab at Stanford University. They've both worked at companies from Apple to electronic arts. They use design thinking to influence every part of their life.

All we're trying to do is offer tools that work for human beings, a happier, more meaningful version of you. Prototype your way to to it. Making a little progress on a huge question is fabulous. This is as good as it gets.

Welcome guys. Thank you for doing this. Well thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. We're really thrilled to be here.

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