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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A designer of simple ideas should aspire to… knowing how much can be wrung out of an idea before it begins to lose its essence.

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The tendency to gravitate toward complexity is perpetually at war with the need to prioritize.

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…psychologists have found that people can be driven to irrational decisions by too much complexity and uncertainty.

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…uncertainty – even irrelevant uncertainty – can paralyze us.

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Core messages help people avoid bad choices by reminding them of what’s important.

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Our brain is designed to be keenly aware of changes. Smart product designers are well aware of this tendency.

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When we’re angry, we know we’re right, as anyone who has been in a relationship can attest.

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Surprise makes us want to find an answer – to resolve the question of why we were surprised – and big surprises call for big answers.

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It’s your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense.

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When we want to know something but don’t, it’s like having an itch that we need to scratch.

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