Book Titles

Made to Stick
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

By Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Year Published: 2007
ISBN-13: 978-1400064281
Categories: Ideas, Marketing, Survival

44 Quotes Found

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Proverbs are the ideal. We must create ideas that are both simple and profound.

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Naturally sticky ideas are full of concrete images… because our brains are wired to remember concrete data.

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How do we get people to care about our ideas? We make them feel something.

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We are wired to feel things for people, not for abstractions.

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Research shows that mentally rehearsing a situation helps us perform better when we encounter that situation in the physical environment.

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Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what is was like not to know it.

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…opaque, abstract missions don’t captivate and inspire people.

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When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.

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No plan survives contact with the enemy.

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It’s hard to make ideas stick in a noisy, unpredictable, chaotic environment.

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