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Hosted by Dr. Wallace · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 62 episodes
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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.
Dr. Wallace hosts Become a Design Thinker, a education show with 62 episodes published.
In design thinking, we start a project by collecting the data. When we decide to design our persona, the first thing is to collect the data of our current persona. From the data, we can discover the gap that we should fi
When you brainstorm your next persona, you are no longer allowed to just "wish" for a better version of yourself. You are a design thinker. You are different. Today, we will go through 4 rules for our brainstorming proce
Design thinkers rebuild our persona by design. It is about rebuilding our current persona into a new one that we aspire to be. In a design process, designers won't design something from scratch. They start with a design
Design Your Second Act This is a theme that describes our personal growth across the 4 regions: Comfort Zone. In this zone, we have to fight against our stronghold to create a breakthrough. Exploration Zone, where we ide
A good network will provide the necessary knowledge and support in our daily work or long-term goals. They can be someone who can give us good advice, share successful or unsuccessful experiences, and provide a safety ne
Our experience is so important, especially if you want to elevate your work to a higher level or move to a new working environment. The problem is, how can we recognize our experience instead of a list of companies' name
Skills are about how well you can apply your knowledge in practice. Anyone can learn and apply a skill in one narrow context. But what makes us become outstanding and significant is the ability to transplant that skill t
How can we transform our newly acquired knowledge into our new competitive edge? In our workplace, knowledge is not what we know. It is what we can do with what we know, how reliably we can do it, and how well we can tea
After we have stepped out of our comfort zone, we may suddenly open up to a wide and clear spectrum. It seems like we can go in any direction. The problem is, where should we go? To navigate, our strategy is to identify
Everyone may have different strongholds that hold up our growth. These strongholds would blind our self-awareness, lead us to follow the repeated pattern, and lock us in our comfort zone. Today, we have generalized diffe
Our old self is our biggest enemy to fight against if we decide to depart from our comfort zone. We strongly believe our previous success is built on our belief system that drives our daily decision-making process. We us
Fear influences our choices. We fear uncertainty. This dictates us choosing a familiar path and reduces our risk exposure. The consequence of not taking risks will limit our identity rebuilding. Fear shrinks vision and o
Our sunk cost stronghold is like an anchor that holds us from departing from our comfort zone. To depart, to start a new journey, we need to bring along our assets. But the problem is, our anchors and our assets sometime
Sunk cost is the emotional debt from when we built our first act. Today, we’re going to look into a critical factor that will hold us back, keep us pinned to that foundation even when we know it’s time to move - The Sunk
We launch the theme in 2026: Design Your Second Act "Design your Second Act" is a design process to help you navigate from a stagnation stage to becoming significant in your world. And we call it a design process because
We are coming to the end of 2025. Today, we will have a special episode - a reprise of our episodes in 2025. If you want to download the diagram for the 4-stages of transformation, here is the download link: https://join
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 gro
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
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
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
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Become a Design Thinker is hosted by Dr. Wallace. The show is categorised under education (self improvement) and has published 62 episodes.
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