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Bernard Roth, Stanford University

What’s the Real Problem?

Design-thinking expert Bernard Roth describes an approach for opening up the solution space for problems that defy solutions. After identifying the problem, determine what the solution to that problem will do for you, and then make that the question you must answer, advises Roth, academic director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school).
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Bernard Roth, Stanford University

'Yoda Was Wrong'

The Stanford d.school's Bernard Roth, author of "The Achievement Habit," refutes an oft-quoted line by Yoda in the "Star Wars" movie series, "Do. Or do not. There is no try." Roth says there is: "There's really nothing wrong with trying to do something, and there's certainly nothing wrong with doing it. The problem is when you think they're the same thing."
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Bernard Roth, Stanford University

Stop Kidding Yourself

Bernard Roth, author of "The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life," explains how the reasons we give when we fail are just excuses. The real failure is in not deeming enough importance to the everyday tasks that confront us, the Stanford engineering professor says. Once we are honest about that, behavior change will follow.
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Bernard Roth, Stanford University

Reframing Problems and Getting Honest [Entire Talk]

Bernard Roth, co-founder and academic director of Stanford University's d.school, shares design-thinking tools for reframing life's stubborn problems and unlocking solutions. Professor Roth, author of the book "The Achievement Habit," also engages audience members in exercises meant to cut through the excuses we tell ourselves that hold us back from accomplishing our goals.
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Bernard Roth, Stanford University
Reframing Problems and Getting Honest [Entire Talk]
Bernard Roth, co-founder and academic director of Stanford University's d.school, shares design-thinking tools for reframing life's stubborn problems and unlocking solutions. Professor Roth, author of the book "The Achievement Habit," also engages audience members in exercises meant to cut through the excuses we tell ourselves that hold us back from accomplishing our goals.

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