Design Thinking My Goals
This morning, I texted my friend that the following:
“I have been reading these articles about people who cut out TV and do all these great things and I think “I don’t watch TV, why am I not more productive?”
The articles I am referring to are these:
5 developer certifications and a software developer degree in one year https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-i-got-a-second-degree-and-earned-5-developer-certifications-in-just-one-year-while-working-and-2b902ee291ab
Qualified for Olympic marathon trials and got a PhD in a year http://www.readingeagle.com/ap/article/i-gave-up-tv-then-qualified-for-olympic-marathon-trials-and-got-my-phd&template=mobileart
I then told my friend that I think the problem is that I have not set any goals. I then proceeded to list some things that I would love to accomplish. Those being:
- Run a marathon
- Learn to cook vegan dishes
- Get some programming certifications
- Build my software developer project portfolio
- Write that urban, African, sci-fi, romance novel I have been thinking about for years
She then proceeded to tell me about Design Thinking. She works at NPR, and shared a podcast they posted recently about how a woman used…