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Finding Your Purpose: Designing Your Next Chapter

"Finding Your Purpose: Designing Your Next Chapter" is an intermediate, audio-first learning journey designed for individuals navigating major life or career transitions. Drawing on methodologies from life design (pioneered by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans at Stanford), positive psychology (such as Martin Seligman’s PERMA model), and the Japanese concept of Ikigai, this course guides learners from internal discovery to tangible, real-world execution. Over 38 concise, 5-minute audio lessons across 7 structured units, learners move past vague self-reflection to build a systematic, resilient framework for defining and living out their next meaningful chapter.

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What you'll learn

Deconstructing the Old Chapter: The Audit of Self · 5 lessons

• The Life Design Mindset
• The Energy Audit
• Values Unfiltered
• The Sunk Cost Trap
• The Baseline Dashboard

The Compass: Aligning Purpose Frameworks · 6 lessons

• The Science of Flourishing
• Deconstructing Ikigai
• The Peak Experience Audit
• Identifying Signature Strengths
• Mapping the Market Needs
• The Compass Synthesis

Odyssey Planning: Designing Alternative Futures · 6 lessons

• The Dysfunctional Belief of "The One Right Path"
• Odyssey Plan 1: The Optimized Trajectory
• Odyssey Plan 2: The Pivot Path
• Odyssey Plan 3: The Wildcard Strategy
• Evaluating the Trajectories
• Selecting Hypotheses for Testing

Prototyping and Real-World Testing · 6 lessons

• The Prototyping Mindset
• Crafting the Prototype Conversation
• Shadowing and Experiential Prototyping
• Testing Financial and Operational Viability
• Analyzing Prototype Data
• The Experiment Action Plan

Decision Making and Navigating Transition · 6 lessons

• Bridges’ Transition Model
• Overcoming Cognitive Biases
• Satisficing vs. Maximizing
• Risk Mitigation and Reversibility
• The Fear Setting Protocol
• The Decision Matrix Payoff

Narrative Design and External Alignment · 5 lessons

• The Power of Narrative Identity
• Reframing Transferable Skills
• Crafting the Pivot Pitch
• Network Activation
• Building Your Advisory Board

Sustaining the Journey: Adaptation and Mastery · 6 lessons

• Building the Habit of Iteration
• Energy and Burnout Management
• Navigating Impostor Syndrome in New Domains
• Pivoting Within the Chapter
• The Quarterly Life Design Review
• Closing the Arc: Living as a Life Designer