A Lifestyle Design Crash Course

Don’t be richLive rich

- a lifestyle design crash course -

nomadz.nunewbraveworld.nu

Saturday 25 June 2011

http://www.newbraveworld.nu




HI, MY NAME IS CATHERINE AND NOT SO LONG AGO WE UNDERTOOK ON A LIFESTYLE DESIGN EXPERIMENT CALLED NOMADZ.NU


BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO TRAVEL TO BE A LIFESTYLE DESIGNER


Lifestyledesign★ Design your own life according what you want to

make out of it.

★ Don’t think in the normal ‘templates’ of life.

★ Timothy Ferriss: exit 9-to-5

★ Timothy Ferriss notion of lifestyle design is a little limited


LIFESTYLE DESIGN IS THE NEW BLACK. - MIX AND MATCH FOR ADVANCED USERS -


THE WORLD IS FLAT & THE INTERNET IS MORE THAN EVER GIVING US

ACCESS TO A TRILLION WAYS TO LIVE. -

Ask YOuR GRANDMOM WHEN SHE GREW UP HOW MANY PEOPLE WEREMEDITATING ATHEISTS WHO HAd FRIENDS LIVING IN COPENHAGEN, CAPE TOWN AND NEW YORK

AND LIKE D BOTH ITALO DISCO AND NU JAZZ, AND YOU’lL GET WHAT I MEAN.


9 to 5 iS A CONSTRUCT OF OLD FASHIONED CAPITALISM*

*ANYONE STILL BELIEVING ADVERTISING? DIDN’T THINK SO. YET ANOTHER SYSTEM IN DECLINE .


ALL OUR MONEY DESPITE,PEOPLE JUST DON’T SEEM TO BE HAPPY.

- ALL OVER THE INDUSTRIAL ISED WORLD THERE IS A MAJOR INCREASE IN DEPRESSION, SUICIDE, ADDICTIONS, CRIME.


79Creative Man - Drivkræfter

bottom-up approach

top-down approach

THE DEVELOPMENT STAIRCASE

MEANING

SOLUTION

PRODUCT

TECHNOLOGY

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The Industrial Logic Dream Society's logic Creative Man's logic

Organisation HIERARCHY CORPORATE VALUES NETWORK

Motivation MATERIAL NEEDS, COMFORT AND SAFETY

SOCIAL NEEDS, DREAMS AND VALUES

PERSONAL GROWTH, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

The good workplace GOOD PHYSICAL WORK ENVIRONMENT

GOOD SOCIAL WORK ENVIRONMENT

GOOD CREATIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT

The good employee STABLE LOYAL INNOVATIVE

Most important product qualities

A GOOD PRICE, EASE OF USE

A GOOD STORY, BRANDING

THE PERSONAL TOUCH, CHOICES

Recreation RELAXATION ADVENTURE CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

Technology AUTOMATION COMMUNICATION CREATION

The ideal THE MILLIONAIRE THE STORYTELLER THE INNOVATOR

The loser THE ODDBALL THE BORING THE UNINVENTIVE

Religion (if any)

CHURCH RELIGION – ORGANISED AND TRADITIONAL

NEW AGE – EXCITING AND DIFFERENT

INDIVIDUAL BELIEF – PERSONAL AND UNIQUE

CREATIVE MAN'S LOGIC

DREAM SOCIETY'S LOGIC

THE INDUSTRIAL LOGIC

A MODEL OF SOCIETY'S LOGICS

SAFETY NEEDS

INDUSTRIAL TIMES WERE ABOUT RATIONALITY,CONFORMITY & MATERIALITY.

TODAY IS ABOUT CREATION, DESIGN & INDIVIDUALITY-

AND IF YOU DON’t BELIEVE ME, BELIEVE THE COPENHAGEN INSTITUTE OF FUTURE STUDIES.

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The Industrial Logic Dream Society's logic Creative Man's logic

Organisation HIERARCHY CORPORATE VALUES NETWORK

Motivation MATERIAL NEEDS, COMFORT AND SAFETY

SOCIAL NEEDS, DREAMS AND VALUES

PERSONAL GROWTH, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

The good workplace GOOD PHYSICAL WORK ENVIRONMENT

GOOD SOCIAL WORK ENVIRONMENT

GOOD CREATIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT

The good employee STABLE LOYAL INNOVATIVE

Most important product qualities

A GOOD PRICE, EASE OF USE

A GOOD STORY, BRANDING

THE PERSONAL TOUCH, CHOICES

Recreation RELAXATION ADVENTURE CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

Technology AUTOMATION COMMUNICATION CREATION

The ideal THE MILLIONAIRE THE STORYTELLER THE INNOVATOR

The loser THE ODDBALL THE BORING THE UNINVENTIVE

Religion (if any)

CHURCH RELIGION – ORGANISED AND TRADITIONAL

NEW AGE – EXCITING AND DIFFERENT

INDIVIDUAL BELIEF – PERSONAL AND UNIQUE

CREATIVE MAN'S LOGIC

DREAM SOCIETY'S LOGIC

THE INDUSTRIAL LOGIC

A MODEL OF SOCIETY'S LOGICS

SAFETY NEEDS


OK. I AM CONVINCED. GIMME SOME

CONCEPTS.


EUDAIMONIA (ARISTOTELES. )

★ The Actualisation of Potentia★ Happiness★ Not just an ancient concept (Umair Haque -

Harvard Business Review - http://bit.ly/kPl3rg )


http://bit.ly/kPl3rg

http://bit.ly/kPl3rg

FLOW(CSIKSZENTMIHALYI. )

★ Optimal Experience★ Between Boredom & Anxiety★ Reading: ‘Flow. The Psychology of Optimale

Experience’


QUALITY (PIRSIG )

★ Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance.★ Quality = Value ★ Against supremacy of the intellect★ The Fundamental Force in the Universe

stimulating everything from atoms to animals to incorporate ever greater levels of quality


OK. I WANT THIS TOO. WHERE SHOULD I START?


CONSTRUCT YOUR DREAMLIST/DREAMLINES (TIMOTHEY FERRISS )

★ http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/★ Consider Mini-Retirements (Sagmeister)


DON’T BE A FOOL ★ Not an excuse to be a nobody. ★ Everyone needs money & security.★ The same goes for a good pension plan


BE A LIFEHACKER (BEYOND THE ORDINARY WAY - GTD++)

★ The importance of butikk.nu in the nomadz.nu story

★ More time to spent, more quality experiences★ Talk to your accountant. Learn some GTD.


BE more THAN YOUR BUSINESS CARD (COVEY )

★ State your different roles★ Don’t forget quadrant II activities


VISIT THE SCHOOL OF LIFE (ALAIN DE BOTTON )

★ True lessons in life★ http://newbraveworld.nu/2011/06/why-you-

should-visit-the-school-of-life/


http://newbraveworld.nu/2011/06/why-you-should-visit-the-school-of-life/




AND REMEMBER.. DON’T BE RICH. LIVE RICH.


THAT’s ALL FOLKS.

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