Made to Stick quotes
by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
7 signature lines from the chapter summaries — auto-extracted, attributed, ready to share. Each quote links back to its chapter on Read Stacks.
“The job of communicating is not to compress your idea but to find its core.”
“The practical move is to identify the audience's default expectation about your topic and design your opening to break it.”
“Abstract language slides off the audience's mind because there is nothing to grip.”
“External credibility comes from cited authorities — research, statistics, experts the audience already trusts.”
“The mechanism is empathy, which fires for one person and shuts down for groups.”
“The simulation builds capability in the listener; when a similar situation arises later, the story is the reference.”
“The Heaths close the book with the underlying obstacle that the SUCCESs framework is trying to overcome: the Curse of Knowledge.”
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