5 Key Insights from author Annie Jean-Baptiste
“When we get rid of disorder in one area of our life, that symmetry and balance flows into the rest of it.”
“90 percent of the success of a gathering happens before anyone even walks in the door.”
“It’s part of the human condition—we’re wired for rites of passage.”
Designer Ingrid Fetell Lee discusses the big ideas behind her latest book, the Next Big Idea Club Finalist, ‘Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness.’
“Think like a consumer, not like a creator.”
“It’s much safer, even though it gives us all a lot more power. You don’t want one Superman on earth, but if you have a billion Supermen then everything is okay because they check and balance each other.”
“Following the lifespan of a building, you step outside the lines we draw and the histories we’ve written.”
“Life’s ambiguous, you don’t always know what’s going to come next—design thinking is a nice framework for this.”
“Most people who are involved in making books, or writing them, are acutely aware that there’s a very big shift happening.”
“Designers privilege the process, and a great deal of the rest of the world privileges the product.”
