How to Live a Meaningful Life, Bill Burnett
How to Live a Meaningful Life, Bill Burnett
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How to Live a Meaningful Life
Using Design Thinking to Unlock Purpose, Joy, and Flow Every Day

Author: Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Narrator: Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Unabridged: 8 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/03/2026

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Read the life-changing book Mel Robbins calls “a blueprint to find [meaning] where we are.”

From the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of Designing Your Life comes an actionable guide to finding real meaning in the life you already have.

Many of us have lives that look successful on paper but feel strangely empty. How to Live a Meaningful Life offers research-backed tools to help you build purpose, clarity, and connection without quitting your job, blowing up your life, or starting from scratch.

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, the visionaries behind Stanford’s renowned Life Design Lab, have helped millions use design thinking to craft lives and careers they love. In this new book, they evolve their framework to focus on one question: What makes a life feel worth living, day to day?

Drawing on the latest science and years of teaching, they show you how to:

-Reduce stress by aligning your time with what actually matters
-Bring more wonder, coherence, and flow into your everyday routines
-Turn ordinary moments into roots of joy and meaning
-Strengthen relationships and build “formative” communities that support you

Instead of cramming more into an already overwhelming routine, Burnett and Evans show you how to get more out of the life you’re already living.

Perfect for readers of Jay Shetty and Brené Brown, How to Live a Meaningful Life offers a clear, hopeful path out of the noise and overload of modern life and into deeper engagement, connection, and purpose, because everyone deserves a meaningful life.

About Bill Burnett

Bill Burnett is the executive director of the Life Design Lab at Stanford University and an adjunct professor in mechanical engineering and design at Stanford. He is also the founder and managing director of the Designing Your Life Institute in Singapore.

About Dave Evans

Dave Evans is the cofounder of the Life Design Lab at Stanford University, adjunct lecturer, and cofounder of Electronic Arts. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on February 09, 2026

I hadn’t heard of these authors before but apparently they have another good book called “Designing Your Life”. This book uses design thinking to craft ways to develop a more meaningful life. Burnett & Evans teach this at Stanford and their ideas are intriguing. A lot of it is not new to me - find w......more

Goodreads review by Val on February 03, 2026

This book is so in time for our society today! In a fast-changing world with paradigm shifts in so many areas, as an executive and career coach, I have listened to many life stories in which people have good jobs, happy families, material possessions, and many achievements etc and yet deep down, the......more

Goodreads review by Chapter.whispers.reads on November 13, 2025

This book got delivered on one of the Indian festivals (Diwali) and felt it as a gift for me to change and enhance more about life. When I started this book I thought to read it very slowly . But in one go I read around 66 pages out of 210 pages. I felt amazed. The authors Bill Burnett and Dave Evan......more

Goodreads review by Farnham68 on December 18, 2025

I give this book 5/5 stars! Great work Bill & Dave! If you felt like Designing Your Life was the compass you needed to navigate your career, How to Live a Meaningful Life is the map for your entire existence. Bill Burnett and Dave Evans have done it again, taking the high-concept ambiguity of "meanin......more