Strip your message down to its core. The Heath brothers emphasize that a compact idea is more powerful than a complicated one. Think: “Proverbs, not PowerPoints.”<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Focus on one core message.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Use analogies and metaphors to clarify.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Cut out the noise—clarity makes you memorable.</li></ul>

1. Simplicity Wins 🧠

Break patterns to spark curiosity. If your audience thinks they know what's coming, surprise them.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Use mystery gaps to create tension.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Deliver a twist early to hook your audience.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Don't be weird—be purposefully surprising.</li></ul>

2. Unexpectedness Grabs Attention 🔥

Abstract concepts are forgettable. Concrete ones stick in the mind.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Use sensory language and specific examples.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Say “a bag of popcorn has more fat than a Big Mac” instead of “high in fat.”</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Paint mental pictures to boost recall.</li></ul>

3. Concrete Beats Abstract 🧱

People need a reason to believe you.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Use statistics - but make them relatable.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Let your audience “try before they buy” through testable claims.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Experts, authorities, and personal stories = instant credibility.</li></ul>

4. Credibility Builds Trust 🔐

Facts tell. Emotions sell.<ul><li>People care more about individuals than large numbers (“1 child in need” &gt; “millions in poverty”).</li><li>Tie your message to shared values and identity.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Tap into pride, fear, hope—or purpose.</li></ul>

5. Emotion Drives Action ❤️‍🔥

“Made to Stick” teaches you how to craft memorable, actionable, and impactful ideas. By mastering the SUCCESs model—Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, Stories—you can communicate more effectively, whether you're selling, teaching, or leading.

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People remember stories better than instructions.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Use story templates: Challenge, Connection, Creativity.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Make the audience the hero.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Stories inspire action, build empathy, and make abstract real.</li></ul>

6. Stories Are Sticky 📖

Discover the six principles that make ideas unforgettable—and how to apply them in your business, brand, and everyday life.

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.

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Chip Heath is the professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.He received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford.He co-wrote a book titled Switch How to Change Things When Change Is Hard with his brother Dan Heath.

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Dan Heath is a Senior Fellow at Duke University's CASE center. Dan has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a B.A. from the Plan II Honors Program from the University of Texas at Austin.He co-wrote a book titled Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard with his brother Chip Heath.

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