Chip Heath Quotes

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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.

Chip Heath
Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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