Become a Design Thinker
In Become a Design Thinker Podcast, we will explore life reinvention stories in different contexts from the perspective of Design Thinking, and see how the lessons learnt from these stories can be applied in our daily work and life.
Design thinking is the designers’ mindset in the design process – how they discover the root problems and test possible solutions to keep making improvements. We will be uploading new episodes every two weeks. Our goal is to empower you with this design-thinking mindset so that you can reinvent your work and life by design.
"Become a Design Thinker" is your decision to step out for a change and to become who you aspire to be.
Episodes
46 episodes
Become a Vulnerability Spotter: Reveal Your Strength Under Your Weakness
Most of you will think that strengths make us thrive. Weaknesses hold us back. It is half true. If we do not reveal the shadow of strength - our pride, our ego, our bias we will face a bottleneck at some point of our growth journey....
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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22:20
Become a Sapper: Destroy the Stronghold Hidden in Your Shadow of Strength
Like a fortress building on a spot that has a military advantage, where the army can easily defend the spot, our stronghold is built under the shadow of our strength, so that we are difficult to defeat. We need to find a way to des...
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19:46
Uncover What People Need | Bill Shander
Bill Shander is an author, educator, and information designer. His courses in data storytelling, information design, and data visualization are on LinkedIn Learning and workshops around the world. He is a keynote speaker and has lec...
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Season 1
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37:45
Become a Torcher: Shine on the Stronghold That Holds You Back
Stronghold is a mindset that prisons our growth mindset and forces us to believe that the current situation cannot be changed. A stronghold refers to a self-limiting belief system shaped by upbringing, culture, and past experiences....
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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23:36
Become a Midnight Builder II - Create in the Darkness to Serve the Unknown
You are in the darkness. You don't know where to go. You feel stuck. You want to find a way out. No one cares about what you are doing. You are always being ignored or put aside.It is one of the best moments in your life. This is because...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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20:41
Become a Silent Pitcher: Pitch Your Ideas Without Pitching Them
Silent Pitching is the art of creating influence without confrontation, guiding others without forcing them, and letting ideas grow in their hearts rather than forcing them into their ears.In this episode, we will discuss how silent pitc...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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22:35
Become a Trailblazer: Multiply Your Creation by Servanthood
You want people to follow your ideas, become part of your creations, and form a larger community. Instead of a push, you should learn to serve.So, the simple question we should ask is, How should we serve to multiply our crea...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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28:32
Become an Identity Architect: Redraw Your Passion and Vision Reconstruction Blueprint
You are very busy at work, but you don't know what you are doing. You cannot tell others what your job is about. You passively react to people's demands. You are not creating something at your work that you can proudly tell your family or frien...
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Episode 38
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21:14
Become a Forager: Crossing the Four Lands of Growth (Part 2)
In the last episode, we have discussed the first half of the topic: Become a Forager: Crossing the Four Lands of Growth Today, we will go through the second part of the episode.Become a Forager is a mindset ...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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22:31
Become a Forager: Crossing the Four Lands of Growth (Part 1)
Today, we will look into this problem from the mentality of Forager. Forager definition: a person or animal that goes from place to place searching for things that they can eat or use.Forager is like a hunter, garde...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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24:50
Become a Curious Cartographer: Construct Your Growth Roadmap by Curiosity
Do you have an experience where you are not moving forward? We may have worked very hard, but gained no reward. You tried to create a breakthrough, but you don't know which direction to go. You don't have a map. You don't have a compass. And th...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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24:25
Become an Unseen Tinkerer: Build Your Capability While You are Patiently Waiting
Have you ever experienced a period of time when you were being isolated and your works were idled? You felt like you could not move forward. You might be very busy at work, but nothing valuable was created. You were struggling with different re...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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22:22
Become an Exile Architect: Rebuild a Former Identity that Have Not Ever Seen
Our identity in our career life may have been once destroyed. It can be due to external forces - your role was being rejected as what we discussed in the last episode. Or you are being fired from current position. Maybe your new supervision cha...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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22:20
Become a Discarded Leader: Prototype Your New Identity From a Rejected Zone
At some point in your life, you may be rejected. We are not talking about your proposal being rejected by your boss or your pitch is rejected by your client. We are talking about your role being rejected. Being rejected means you are being igno...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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24:43
Become a Restoring Architect: Rebuild What Matters Over the Ruins
You think you are building something solid. But somewhere along the way, something else has quietly crumbled. So, what have been broken down and left behind? Your passion - which you have traded for s...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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24:44
Become a Disarmed Commander: Lay Down the Armour That No Longer Serves You.
Our success is often built on what we’ve done in the past. The things we repeat—our habits, strategies, and ways of thinking. These will help us succeed by offering us proven formulas. They create a sense of certainty in an uncertain world.&nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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23:39
Become a Chinese Calligrapher: Design the White Space in-between Your Works.
In a rapidly changing world shaped by longer lifespans and the rise of AI, defining your future solely by connecting the dots of your past limits your potential. True adaptability and innovation come from embracing the "white space" — the unmar...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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22:22
Become a Rocket Scientist: Test Your Ideas to Fall, Fail and Fly Without Fatality*
How rocket scientists faced failure? While every small failure may cause fatal consequences. Rocket scientists living in a world of uncertainty, using the limited knowledge about the universe, keep testing the limits to send humans ...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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21:23
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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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Episode 22
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28:58
