What does it mean to prototype in life design? Provide an example. Note: In life design, My prototype is to be a Paralegal so you can work around that at the time you have to provide an example And respond to these 2 discussions 1)To prototype in life design means to gather data in order to set up opportunities for you to try something in real life. So if you are trying to design a part of your life that you need to know more about, you would seek out experts to gain knowledge/experiences from. Then from there you can try out some of what you learned and make a decision based on what you learned. For example, I have chosen to use my ‘near alternative’ plan of opening a Café/Community Resource Center. For part of my plan, I need some real life experience to learn as much as I can about what it takes to have a successful café. I would interview someone who is currently running a successful café. Along with this, I may volunteer to work a few hours with them at their café to learn what it’s truly like. 2)To prototype in life design means to go through a system of trials for a specific life interest involving; identifying one’s interests, creating potential life plans to see if this life fits you and what you want for yourself, interviewing someone who already has elements of the life your are aiming towards to understand what they enjoy from this lifestyle or what they don’t, and then conduct trials of each specific idea you have selected that has interest to you so that you can gain a personal understanding of how you relate to the lifestyle. There is no finished state in this process because life doesn’t have a finished state until it is truly finished. An example of this would be for someone to identify that they have an interest in ceramic and want to become a potter, they would then measure if this would be a realistic change for their lifestyle and what they want from life, so they look up local pottery studios and contact a potter who they are interested in and request a meeting with them where they can get them a meal or some coffee depending on what fits that person best and their schedule they would then ask personal questions about that person and their experience in the field. If this results in continued interest the person would try to find a potter that would let them shadow them for a day to see what it is like for them and if he or she would see if this is a lifestyle they could pursue.
