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Made to Stick

Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

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Made to Stick

By: Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to make your ideas stick.

“Anyone interested in influencing others—to buy, to vote, to learn, to diet, to give to charity or to start a revolution—can learn from this book.”—
The Washington Post

Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas—entrepreneurs, teachers, politicians, and journalists—struggle to make them “stick.”

In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps. Along the way, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds—from the infamous “kidney theft ring” hoax to a coach’s lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony—draw their power from the same six traits.

Made to Stick will transform the way you communicate. It’s a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures): the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of the Mother Teresa Effect; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice.

Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas—and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick.

©2006 Chip Heath and Dan Heath (P)2007 Random House, Inc.
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Made to Stick summons plenty of brain science, social history, and behavioral psychology to explain what makes an idea winning and memorable—and the Heaths do the telling with beautiful clarity.”—The Christian Science Monitor

“Utterly compelling.”—Los Angeles Times

“Surprising and provocative.”—The New York Sun

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Stick to this book

A fantastic reading, if you are on marketing or just wondering how to make your blog more visible.
Many great tips.
I've read this book after Contagious. And they are complementary. This book talks about how the idea must be dealt with. And "Contagious" is about how to spread your message.

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Argues for and Explains Content in Marketing

We’ve come to think of marketing as glitz, clammier, and fluff. But if you think about these sorts of things you’re probably aware of every so often coming across a message that super effective because of its content, often in spite of its lack of “marketing polish”. It’s almost like these examples are more effective marketing in spite of being poorly marketed.

This book attempts to deconstruct the content of marketing. It’s powerful. It’s also an intriguing mix of what we all sort of know instinctually, but usually can’t really explain.

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It stuck and I am stuck on it too

I really like this audiobook. It is full of information and examples. The book itself uses the concepts it teaches.

It focuses on a core idea of "SUCCESS", Simple (or Core), Unexpected, Concrete, Credibility, and Stories.

Although the system seems simple it's got a lot of complex examples. I've used some of the concepts to help craft some of my public comments at city hall to get the attention of council members on a very important subject for me. I got positive feedback from some people in the public who liked my statements.

I haven't yet mastered all the concepts but I keep listening to the book over and over again.

Something else I found facinating is the fact that they referenced Malcolm Gladwell's "Tipping Point" and his concept of "sticky stories" (or whatever he called them). I really liked Gladwell's concepts but I was a little bummed he didn't go into how to facilitate the ideas. I'm glad the Brothers Heath covered it in this book.

I like the narrator. His voice is pleasant and he gives good emphasis on the sentences.

I've already recommended this book to others. I think it's a good companion to the "Crucial Conversations", Crucial Confrontations" and "Influencer" series that I love so much.

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Memes

A meme is an idea. This book is full of anecdotal tales that show how a simple idea can become the compass point that guides great companies, individuals, and impacts nations. My attention was held from beginning to end, and then I listened to it all over again. And again. "Made to Stick" is a must read for anybody that needs to get a message heard.

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Excellent, useful, well-presented

Recently went back through this years after I'd first read it, and it really holds up well.

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¡Take notes! ¡Awesome book!

Concrete, insightfull and with a lot of "how to's" which I love on a book.

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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I've listened to a few self help books from Audible, and truth be told this wasn't one my favorites. It was interesting and the overall message was good, but you might need the physical book to get it to work for some parts.

I listened to the whole thing, so it's not like it wasn't worth my time. It's just some of the exercises I don't think translated all that well and made me want to buy the physical book to get it done and see if it helped.
I didn't buy the physical book as I bought the audible one, and don't believe in paying for something twice. So I don't really know if the physical book would have helped, it just felt that way.

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Very practical!

Enjoyed every minute of it. The narrator is charismatic and delivers the book's content artfully!

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good book for marketing and sales professionals.

If you are in sales or marketing or a Professional trainer who nerds to bring across a complex message, this is the book to read! It provides the framework you need to be more effective.

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A book worth the time. The strategies are easy...

great and easy to understand instructions for making ideas stick. anyone in any profession can benefit from the strategies given. Good read.

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