Become a Design Thinker
"Become a Design Thinker" is to serve people who believe they can create positive impacts on people and can’t tolerate being put in a passive and vulnerable position to make a change.
Design Thinking uses the designer’s mindset to see and solve problems differently. “Become a Design Thinker” is your choice to create a positive impact on people through a mindset change. We integrate Design Thinking with different management concepts to apply Design Thinking in daily work and life.
Learn to be a Design Thinker together. Become the designer of your work, your family and your life. You have the power to design a future better than today.
Episodes
28 episodes
Creating a Relational Community Engagement Strategy with Jake Mckee
Join us in this special bonus episode of "Become a Design Thinker" podcast as we dive into the world of community engagement with Jake McKee. Learn how Jake has helped globally renowned brands like Lego and Southwest Airlines integr...
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Become a Community Steward: Design a Learning Community that Embraces Risk-taking
When we are breaking our comfort zone - our career reinvention, identity shifts, and burnout, the loneliness of solo work, loss of focus, disorientation, and fast-changing work contexts require others’ support. We need communi...
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Episode 27
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14:42
Become a Slinger: Be Agile to Break Your Comfort Zone
Many people may struggle with how to start solving a problem. It may be a problem at work, a tension in your family or a self-doubt in personal growth. You may feel overwhelmed. There are so many pathways in front of you. But you simply don’t k...
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Episode 26
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17:18
Become a Midnight Builder: Do Your Work When No One is Watching on You
We are working in a very fluid global business environment. Many of us may have the self-awareness that the knowledge we have learnt in school and the experience we have earned in the first half of our career life may not be sufficient to carry...
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Episode 25
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21:42
Become a Good Servant of Time: Multiply Learning Outcomes in Scarcity of Time
We are all granted for a fixed amount of time. Time does not belong to us. We don’t own our time. If we don’t use our time wisely, it will pass away. Everyone has only 24 hours a day. Creating extra time is impossible. But if...
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Episode 24
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19:27
Become a Veteran: Turn Experience into Lifelong Strength Through Gritty Learning
Learning Nomad is an idea to empower us to survive and thrive in the ever-changing workplace impacted by AI. It is a commitment to lifelong learning to build our self-awareness of the knowledge gap, self-orientation of growth direction an...
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Episode 23
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28:16
Become a Learning Nomad – Commit to Lifelong Learning to Ground Ourselves in a Fluid Working Terrain
In this episode, we’ll explore the concept of the Learning Nomad as a powerful metaphor for navigating today’s ever-changing working landscape. Just as nomads adapt to shifting environments by remaining flexible, resourceful, and open to new op...
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Episode 22
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28:58
Become a Ghostwriter: Rent Your Pen to Convey Uncomfortable Messages That Make a Difference*
*The name and some content of this episode are inspired by the book The Art and Business of Ghost-writing, written by Nicolas Cole.Our daily work and life. We may have occasions when we have to deliver a message that does not c...
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Episode 21
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23:27
Become a Rehearsal Master: Observe to Serve
Design thinkers are quiet to observe, patient to prepare, calm to speak and prompt to act behind the scenes to serve people you care about. In this episode, we will discuss how design thinkers serve people. We will talk mor...
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Episode 20
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20:12
Become a Quilter: Weave Your Fragmented Stories to Create Meaningful Patterns.
You may have fragmented stories when you look back on your past. These stories provide clues that may help you to reinvent your journey and suggest the next step forward.Like a Quilter, you can sew fragmented ideas into meaningful patter...
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Episode 19
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23:26
Become a Life Curator: Reframe Your Past to Retell Your Story.
In this episode, we will explore how to reframe what had happened to us and turn it into a meaningful story. This story is not a nostalgic reminiscent. A meaningful story can connect our past and make sense of what we doing now. Most importantl...
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Episode 18
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Become an Archer: How to Aim at Different Rings of People Relationships
We have different people relationships to manage. These relationships are like concentric rings, like the target of an archer. Archers cannot choose the battlefield. Archers stand with their legs firmly planted on the ground to have...
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Episode 17
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24:25
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Become a Tightrope Walker: Balance Yourself When You Are Making Decisions Alone Up High
Deciding to make a change in midlife is stressful. You want to talk to a lot of people to find the answer. You want a mentor to tell you what to do next. But it never happens. When deciding to change, you are alone. You have to make your decisi...
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Episode 16
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18:40
Become a Trapeze Artist: Swinging into Change for Reinventing Yourself
You’re never too old or too late to seize an opportunity in a new arena. The key is maintaining the momentum to swing from where you are to where you aspire to be.In midlife, it’s easy to fear that we’re too old or too late to make a si...
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Episode 15
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22:50
Become a Pathfinder: Don’t Let the Stepping Stones Become Your Obstacles
"But why does this happen to me? This is not my plan. I am not going in this direction." We all have a goal. At least, in the past, I believe. Sometimes, we may have tried something. But the outcome is not something that we ant...
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Episode 14
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23:50
Become a Master of Shadow Puppetry: Transform Your Shadow into Your Performance
Your success is shown under the spotlight. Many of us enjoy the moment receiving applause and cheers from the audience. But these applauses and cheers do not mean we are getting better and guaranteeing the next success. This is because you may ...
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Episode 13
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22:25
Become a King of Masks*: Change your Persona to Shine Your Skills in Different Arenas
*The name of this episode is inspired by the movie “The King of Masks” (1995) directed by Tian-Ming Wu. We build our skills through our past knowledge and experience. Our current skills may make us feel good, right now.We ma...
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Episode 12
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24:12
Become a Disciplined Mountaineer: Design Thinking as a Discipline for Progressing Your Goals
In this episode, we will gain insight from high-altitude mountaineers when they are pursuing the summit under ever-changing conditions in the mountain.We have our goals. We want to use what we have learned and what we have earned in the ...
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Episode 11
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22:32
Become a Courageous Firefighter: Be Patient and Prepared for Calling to Solve Complex Problems.
Design Thinkers bear the doer mindset. Design thinkers drive a change by action rather than dreaming or talking about it. However, excessive or premature action may result in undesirable situations, cause confusion, or hurt the people that you ...
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Episode 10
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17:11
Become an Earthy Gardener: Cultivate Your Skills to Become Your Strength of Greatness
In the episode “Become a Hedgehog and a Fox (Part Two)”, we have discussed the “Hedgehog Concept” by Jim Collins. You have to find out what you are good at, turn it into one great thing and become the best in the world. You have to discover you...
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Episode 9
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23:12
Become Who You Are: The Journey to Discover Who You Are to Become Who You Want to be
“Some people never become who they are; they stop trusting in themselves; they conform to the tastes of others, and they end up wearing a mask that hides their true nature.”― Robert Greene Becoming great means ...
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Episode 8
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13:39
Become a Hedgehog and a Fox (Part Two): The Design Thinking in Becoming Great
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” ― Isaiah Berlin.Jim Collins, in his book Good to Great, quoted the story of “The Hedgehog and the Fox” from Isaiah Berlin’s essay. Jim said tha...
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Episode 7
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28:47
Become a Hedgehog and a Fox (Part One): The Design Thinking in Change
The story of “The Hedgehog and the Fox” is found in ancient literature, modern essays and books. What insights can we get from this story? And how does it relate to design thinking?
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Episode 6
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15:37
Become a Failure Lover: Remove the Stronghold That Stop You Learn From Failure
In this episode, we will dive deeper into the doer mindset of design thinkers:Design Thinkers fail fast and learn fast;Design Thinkers give up to move up;Design Thinkers evaluate to elevate.Learn to fall in love with failu...
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Episode 5
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19:10
Become a Problem Lover: Five Questions to Ask When Solving A Problem
When encountering problems ahead, many people may rush to find the solutions. But for designers, when they encounter design problems, they will ask more questions to discover more problems. Designers love problems. Why? Because desi...
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Episode 4
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15:41