Chip Heath Quotes

• The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

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  Attention, Patterns, Way

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• Knowledge is rarely enough to spark change; it takes emotion to bring knowledge to a boil.

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  Emotion

  "Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard". Book by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, 2010.

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• To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

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  Communication, Thinking, Needs

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• What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

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  Looks, Resistance, Clarity

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• When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.

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  Different, Looks, Middle

  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2011). “Switch: How to change things when change is hard”, p.93, Random House

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• Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.

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  Strong, Moving, Looks

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• Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

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  Decisions We Make, Choices, Luck

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• What’s working, and how can we do more of it?

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  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2011). “Switch: How to change things when change is hard”, p.41, Random House

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• The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.

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  Ideas, Information, Amount

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• The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

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  Communication, People, Attention

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• Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

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  People, Looks, Laziness

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• The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.

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  Satisfying

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• The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

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  Memories, Ideas, Hook

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

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  People, Arriving, Destination

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• Stories are flight simulators for our brains.

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  Brain, Stories, Flight

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• One of my favorite bloggers who can articulate his ideas clearly is Avinash Kaushik. The only problem? His ideas are so awesome his posts are a mile long, but I promise they are worth the time.

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  Ideas, Long, Promise

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• Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.

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  Fear, Anger, Fighting

  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.67, Random House

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• Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.

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  Mean, Experts, Nuance

  "Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck". Book by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, 2006.

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• Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others.

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  Smart, Ideas, Genius

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

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  Knowledge, Imagine, Knows

  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.20, Random House

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• What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

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  People, Looks, Problem

  "Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard". Book by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, 2010.

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• Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit

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  Hard Work, Tunnels, Months

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• Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

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  Army, Creating, Battle

  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.26, Random House

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• There's no such thing as a passive audience.

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  Passive, Audience

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• What questions do I want my audience to ask?

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  Want, Audience, Asks

  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.88, Random House

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