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
20 episodes
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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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Episode 18
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17:14
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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Episode 4
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15:41
Become an Accurate Listener: Four Blind Spots That Stop us Listen to People Empathetically
To create good designs, designers need to care about people and accurately listen to what people want and need. If you can listen accurately, you may perform better in your work and build better relationship with people. But there is a problem:...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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12:10
Become a Designer: You can Design a Future Better Than Today
Design thinking is inspired by how designers work. If you want to become a design thinker, you may need to have a deeper understanding of how designers work. In this episode, we will discuss four areas of design, which are represented by four c...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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16:09
Become a Design Thinker: The Design Thinking in Mindset Change
You may want to change thousands things but seem you can’t change a single one in reality. Design Thinking is a well accepted idea generation and problem-solving method inspired by how designers work. We will share four design thinker mindset t...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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