#The power of moments how to#

“I think it’s very rare for parents to see their students’ work…they see swim meets, they see dance performances, they see plays, but it’s very rare for parents to see the academic work their kids do.“A relationship in which one party is oblivious to the most profound moments in the life of the other is no relationship at all.”.This is what we mean by thinking in moments: to recognize where the prose of life needs punctuation.”

They seem natural to us but notice that every last one of them was invented-dreamed up by anonymous authors who wanted to give shape to time.

“Every culture has its prescribed set of big moments: birthdays and weddings and graduations of course, but also holiday celebrations and funeral rites and political traditions.

“Velcro quotes” (ideas that are going to stick with me moving forward):

I considered the fact that if you were listening on audiobook it might be hard to keep track of the various lists and sub-lists of ideas and strategies they provided, but the recaps at the end of each chapter addressed that.

#The power of moments how to#

Many of the defining moments in our lives are the result of accident or luck-but why would we leave our most meaningful, memorable moments to chance when we can create them? The Power of Moments shows us how to be the author of richer experiences.Īmazon Rating: 4.7 (501 ratings – Canada)/4.7 (613 ratings – US)Īnything someone might quibble with: I honesty couldn’t pick out anything that bothered me on this one. (What happens in that time?) Or the tale of the world’s youngest female billionaire, who credits her resilience to something her father asked the family at the dinner table. Readers discover how brief experiences can change lives, such as the experiment in which two strangers meet in a room, and forty-five minutes later, they leave as best friends. Why “we feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they’re not.” And why our most cherished memories are clustered into a brief period during our youth. This book delves into some fascinating mysteries of experience: Why we tend to remember the best or worst moment of an experience, as well as the last moment, and forget the rest. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember twenty years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that matter for your children? If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us-and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. My work over the past decade has been focused on how to be more deliberate in creating what I call “powerful moments of interpersonal impact.” With The Power of Moments I discovered a book that provided me with a better framework for explaining the specific characteristics of what makes a moment powerful, making it easier to identify and plan to create them. It was my “lollipop moment” video that put my work on the radar of many people, but I think it’s important to note that the “lollipop moment” was in fact an accident: I didn’t consciously create it. They offer research from both personal and business perspectives on the power and importance of individual moments, and for the business-minded out there, they offer very specific examples of how the “moments-first” concept has led to significant boosts in profits for many companies. What Chip and Dan Heath have done with The Power of Moments is offer an in-depth analysis of exactly what a moment of interpersonal impact looks like, and perhaps more importantly, offer an easy-to-implement process to more consciously create them. Likely because it focuses on a foundational aspect of my own work: the idea that our true power (and by extension our best tool for leadership) lies in the individual moments of impact that we can create. I absolutely, straight-up loved this book. This is a book about the power of moments and the wisdom of shaping them.” All it takes is a bit of insight and forethought.

Politicians can unite, and managers can motivate.

“Moments matter, and what an opportunity we miss when we leave them to chance.