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DESIGNING YOUR LIFE CHAPTER 2 REFLECTION
Student's Name
Institution Affiliation
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Designing Your Life Chapter 2 Reflection
The book's authors, Designing Your Life, introduce lifeview, workview, True North, and
Building your compass. Workview is what work means to a person by asking questions such as
what work is for? Why people do it? It is the philosophy one has about work. Understanding this,
it would prove difficult to let other people design our lives. These concepts lead to the
understanding that we should be interested in the work we do since work is the most crucial part
of human lives because each waking day is spent on working, raising the question of why should
we continue involving ourselves with work that does not inspire growth and force us to be our best
versions.
On the other hand, Lifeview refers to people's ideas about the world around them and its
working mechanisms. A person may understand their life view by asking questions like what
makes our lives valuable or worthwhile? How our lives relate to those of others in our families,
communities, and the world? How are growth, fulfillment, and experience important in our lives.
Burnett and Evans (2016) claim that once we have our lifeview and workview completed,
then the compass for a well-designed life will have been created to guide us on the path.
Nevertheless, they also note that the workview and lifeview people have as teenagers often change
with time as we grow and go through various life events. The reason behind the concept is that
many voices tell us who to be and what to do. Doing this makes us live other people's lives, and
the only way to get away from that is by having a clearly defined workview and lifeview to build
our compasses.
Workview Reflection
Work is a critical aspect of life because it is what we spend most of our lives doing. School
only takes a small percentage of our lives, and the rest is spent working. Furthermore, life would
DESIGNING YOUR LIFE CHAPTER 2 REFLECTION
Student's Name
Institution Affiliation
, 2
Designing Your Life Chapter 2 Reflection
The book's authors, Designing Your Life, introduce lifeview, workview, True North, and
Building your compass. Workview is what work means to a person by asking questions such as
what work is for? Why people do it? It is the philosophy one has about work. Understanding this,
it would prove difficult to let other people design our lives. These concepts lead to the
understanding that we should be interested in the work we do since work is the most crucial part
of human lives because each waking day is spent on working, raising the question of why should
we continue involving ourselves with work that does not inspire growth and force us to be our best
versions.
On the other hand, Lifeview refers to people's ideas about the world around them and its
working mechanisms. A person may understand their life view by asking questions like what
makes our lives valuable or worthwhile? How our lives relate to those of others in our families,
communities, and the world? How are growth, fulfillment, and experience important in our lives.
Burnett and Evans (2016) claim that once we have our lifeview and workview completed,
then the compass for a well-designed life will have been created to guide us on the path.
Nevertheless, they also note that the workview and lifeview people have as teenagers often change
with time as we grow and go through various life events. The reason behind the concept is that
many voices tell us who to be and what to do. Doing this makes us live other people's lives, and
the only way to get away from that is by having a clearly defined workview and lifeview to build
our compasses.
Workview Reflection
Work is a critical aspect of life because it is what we spend most of our lives doing. School
only takes a small percentage of our lives, and the rest is spent working. Furthermore, life would
