ORGN 3025 FINAL UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is life design?
Answer:
life design is a way for you to figure out your own answers to these perennial questions, and to figure out
your own good life
Question:
2. what questions help to figure out your life design?
Answer:
-why am I here?
-what am I doing?
-why does it matter?
-what is my purpose?
-what's the point of it all?
Question:
3. what is a "workview" and what is a "lifeview"?
Answer:
--> to build your compass you need a workview and a lifeview
workview = need to discover what work means to you. What is it for, why do you do it, what makes good
work? If you can articulate your philosophy of work, you are less likely to let others design your life for
you
lifeview = if you are alive you have a lifeview. Your ideas about the world and how it works. What gives it
meaning, value? How does it relate to others?
Question:
4. how do "workview" and "lifeview" function together?
Answer:
By articulating both we can build our unique compass: out goal for life is a coherent life to connect the
dots of who you are, what you believe, and what you are doing
Question:
5. what is your "truenorth"?
Answer:
your workview and lifeview give you your truenorth. About helping you find your way and checking in to
make sure you are staying aligned.
Question:
6. what is prototyping? how does it relate to design thinking?
, Answer:
it is an integral part of design thinking, it is all about asking good questions, outing our hidden biases and
assumptions. Prototypes help visualize alternatives in an experiential way, it builds empathy and
understanding
Question:
7. what is a life design interview?
Answer:
it is a specific form of prototype conversation, it means getting someone's story who is in your area of
expertise. It is a personal story of how the person got to be doing what they do and what their life is really
like doing that job.
Question:
8. what are the 4 steps to the lifedesign brainstorming process?
Answer:
step #1: framing a good question step #2: warming up step #3: the brainstorm itself
-go for the quantity, not the quality
-defer judgement and do not censor ideas
-build off the idea of others
-encourage wild ideas step #4:naming and framing the outcomes
Question:
9. what are the 5 steps to reaching your full potential? how can you achieve each step?
Answer:
1. set your own bar high allow yourself to push the envelop, be determined and focused
2. understand the data points have clear metrics and specific data points on what makes an individual
contribution successful
3. reward yourself with responsibility do work that isnt mandatory or asked of you, explore new data,
trends, and relationships
4. learn to be a better communicator show that you appreciate communication, be transparent, articulate,
succinct, relevant, timely
5. be proactive about asking for feedback
Question:
10. what is a leader of possibility?
Answer:
individual who invigorates the lines of affiliation and compassion from person to person in the face of the
tyranny of fear
Question:
11. what are the criteria necessary for a vision to become a framework for possibility?
Answer:
*vision articulates a possibility *vision fulfills a desire fundamental to humankind, a desire with which any
human being can resonate *vision makes no reference to morality/ethics, it is not about the right way of
doing things *vision is stated as a picture of all time, using no numbers, measures, or comparatives.
*vision is free-standing, it points neither to a rosier future, nor to a past in need of improvement *vision is
a long line of possibility radiating toward *speaking a vision transforms the speaker
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is life design?
Answer:
life design is a way for you to figure out your own answers to these perennial questions, and to figure out
your own good life
Question:
2. what questions help to figure out your life design?
Answer:
-why am I here?
-what am I doing?
-why does it matter?
-what is my purpose?
-what's the point of it all?
Question:
3. what is a "workview" and what is a "lifeview"?
Answer:
--> to build your compass you need a workview and a lifeview
workview = need to discover what work means to you. What is it for, why do you do it, what makes good
work? If you can articulate your philosophy of work, you are less likely to let others design your life for
you
lifeview = if you are alive you have a lifeview. Your ideas about the world and how it works. What gives it
meaning, value? How does it relate to others?
Question:
4. how do "workview" and "lifeview" function together?
Answer:
By articulating both we can build our unique compass: out goal for life is a coherent life to connect the
dots of who you are, what you believe, and what you are doing
Question:
5. what is your "truenorth"?
Answer:
your workview and lifeview give you your truenorth. About helping you find your way and checking in to
make sure you are staying aligned.
Question:
6. what is prototyping? how does it relate to design thinking?
, Answer:
it is an integral part of design thinking, it is all about asking good questions, outing our hidden biases and
assumptions. Prototypes help visualize alternatives in an experiential way, it builds empathy and
understanding
Question:
7. what is a life design interview?
Answer:
it is a specific form of prototype conversation, it means getting someone's story who is in your area of
expertise. It is a personal story of how the person got to be doing what they do and what their life is really
like doing that job.
Question:
8. what are the 4 steps to the lifedesign brainstorming process?
Answer:
step #1: framing a good question step #2: warming up step #3: the brainstorm itself
-go for the quantity, not the quality
-defer judgement and do not censor ideas
-build off the idea of others
-encourage wild ideas step #4:naming and framing the outcomes
Question:
9. what are the 5 steps to reaching your full potential? how can you achieve each step?
Answer:
1. set your own bar high allow yourself to push the envelop, be determined and focused
2. understand the data points have clear metrics and specific data points on what makes an individual
contribution successful
3. reward yourself with responsibility do work that isnt mandatory or asked of you, explore new data,
trends, and relationships
4. learn to be a better communicator show that you appreciate communication, be transparent, articulate,
succinct, relevant, timely
5. be proactive about asking for feedback
Question:
10. what is a leader of possibility?
Answer:
individual who invigorates the lines of affiliation and compassion from person to person in the face of the
tyranny of fear
Question:
11. what are the criteria necessary for a vision to become a framework for possibility?
Answer:
*vision articulates a possibility *vision fulfills a desire fundamental to humankind, a desire with which any
human being can resonate *vision makes no reference to morality/ethics, it is not about the right way of
doing things *vision is stated as a picture of all time, using no numbers, measures, or comparatives.
*vision is free-standing, it points neither to a rosier future, nor to a past in need of improvement *vision is
a long line of possibility radiating toward *speaking a vision transforms the speaker
