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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.
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The Fear Stronghold: Design Your Risk Appetite
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…
Distinguish Your Asset and Anchor to Depart from Your Comfort Zone
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…
S1E47 The Sunk Cost Stronghold: What experience will make us thrive and what will hold me back?
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…
S1E46 2026 Theme: Design Your Second Act
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…
S1E45 Become a Design Thinker 2025 Reprise
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…
S1E44 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…
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…
S1 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…
S1E42 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…
S1E41 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…
S1E40 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…
S1E39 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…
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…
S1E37 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…
S1E36 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…
S1E35 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…
S1E34 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…
S1E33 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…
S1E32 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…
S1E31 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…
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