198: Adam Gamwell—How to Redesign Your Life Using Design Thinking

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 24px;"><strong>Hear how to reinvent your future in the midst of crisis</strong></span></p> <p>At the height (or depth) of the COVID-19 crisis, we thought it might be valuable to have an anthropologist share with you his perspective on how we might imagine the changes that are going to follow this major economic disruption, especially since we too are <a href="https://www.simonassociates.net/anthropologists/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">anthropologists</a>. We had Adam Gamwell on our podcast back in September 2017 which you can listen to <a href= "../../../podcast/028-adam-gamwell-and-ryan-collins-this-anthro-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>, and it was natural to want him back now. As you listen, you'll hear how anthropologists are very good at stepping back and observing the changes and adaptations people are making to the crisis. You will enjoy this podcast, as insightful as it is timely. Listen and learn!<img class="mce-hs-more" style="height: 20px !important;" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-mce-placeholder="" /></p> <p><img style= "width: 158px; float: left; margin: 7px 18px 0px 0px;" src= "https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/398462/Adam-Gladwell.jpeg" alt= "Adam-Gladwell" width="158" /><span style= "font-size: 20px;"><strong>Creating stories to explain the pandemic to ourselves</strong></span></p> <p>While some pundits are already claiming to know what we will do as we come out of this crisis, Adam and I both know from our own experience as <a href= "../../../blink-and-the-future-is-here.-are-you-ready" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">futurists</a> and as <a href= "https://www.simonassociates.net/anthropologists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anthropologists</a> that predicting the future is maybe an art, but rarely a science, much less correct. It is just another clever story that we humans create when we want certainty in a period of uncertainty. These are times when we are re-wr