Designing Your Life : How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful LifeBurnett, B., & Evans, D. (2017). Designing your life: How to build a well-lived, joyful life. New York, NY: Knopf.
Read Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 in Burnett and Evans.These readings introduce students to the important ideas that happiness comes from developing a healthy decision-making process that includes gathering options, narrowing choices, choosing discerningly, and committing fully without second-guessing; and that we can develop "failure immunity" by reframing setbacks as learning opportunities, viewing life as an infinite game of growth rather than a win-lose proposition, and practicing a simple method to extract insights from failures.
