The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Narrated by Jeremy Bobb
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. 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?
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. 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.
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. (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. (What was that simple question?)
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.
Editor's Note
Foster key moments…
This book by bestselling coauthors-slash-brothers Chip and Dan Heath is filled with fascinating information and plenty of inspiration. Don't just seize the day — seize the moment.
Chip Heath
Chip Heath is a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Chip and his brother Dan have written four New York Times bestselling books: Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of Moments. Their books have sold over three million copies worldwide and have been translated into thirty-three languages including Thai, Arabic, and Lithuanian. He has helped over 530 startups refine and articulate their strategy and mission. Chip lives in Los Gatos, California.
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Reviews for The Power of Moments
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The book gives you tools to seize the moment, a moment that could not just be experienced but rather change your life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good read would read again no more to say here
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Great Ideas, good book but way to long. I like the anecdotes helping to illustrate the ideas but after a while it feels like it's dragging and the anecdotes become the main thing... As much as I like the book, I can't recommend it
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was great! I had a few ideas to immediately recognize more moments at the office. More ideas will come after another listen or read! Thank you!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is a good reminder of small things we can do to create unforgettable moments. We mostly memorise moments and making that little bit of extra effort to make it special will make it interesting for us and also the people around us...be it our family, friends, employees, stakeholders, partners, etc.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excelente. Muy útil. Ojalá estuviera en PDF así podría imprimirlo y almacenar las partes que siempre quiero recordar.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Delightful book. Provided some examples and insides that we can afford and apply on our loves starting now. It worth to be read/heard many times.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Being able to recapture a day by singling out small moments is the base line to change how you can view your life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I can now put science and research into context as to why feelings and Passion and purpose and experiences are all magnified or diminished in life. Great read!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Heaths have done it again. The information is relevant in all areas of life. Spouses, parents, teachers, leaders, and business persons should read this book. They provude the data, the theory, then the applications.
The narration was superb!!!
The only downside was the book is addictive and over stimulating with ideas. It was hard to go sleep. Be fore warned. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5love how the book explain moments in several different setting
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's about the few moments that has a huge impact on our live, some turning points that are so simple but make a big difference, like what to say to a kid in a special day, an employee on his first day...
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Power of Moments is an incredible audiobook I had the pleasure of listening. Great Narrator. Great information. Worth every penny. Thank you, Scribd for recommending this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book for anyone who works with people or who has people in their life who they want to impact!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved this book! Life really is about the moments and this gives a lot to think about how to enhance those moments in every day life! Listened at a 1.2 pace and it was perfect!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent framework if You are interested in maximizing moments. I also enjoyed the free material shared online at the end of the audio book to review the content.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I liked this. I thought it was very thought provoking. I think maybe I would want to reread in a written format and take notes.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5YES! This book is amazing. It give clear, thoughtful, and direct examples and structure throughout the entire book. Yet again, another audiobook I would love to have in hardcover form for easy reference and notes! Highly recommend.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I’ve never given much tought to specific moments but do remember some more than others. In understanding this moment, and what makes them so powerful (in good or bad ways) you get a tool to better shape your life and create moments out of consciousness in your daily life (and work) and a tool equally helpful to reframe your past experience trough an analytic lense
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What an incredible book. There are so many actionable steps for everyone to take. This book brings many idea and also sparks them with in you. My first book by Chip Health, and it will not be the last!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Chip and Dan Heath are brothers who both work for universities - one a Professor and the other a Senior Fellow. They study business and entrepreneurship, and have teamed together to write four very successful business oriented books that can also provide insights helpful to their readers outside of their professional lives. The Power of Moments is the latest of those. One of the reasons these books are so successful is that they are well crafted and easy to read books that both unpack "aha" moments and provide actionable ideas to motivate readers. This book is no exception.
This book focuses on Defining Moments (their term for "a short experience that is both memorable and meaningful"). They then break Defining Moments into four elements - Moments of Elevation, Insight, Pride and Connection. The rest of the book is a guide to crafting those Defining Moments.
The book takes you through each of the elements, with plenty of examples along the way, and with summaries for each element, and case studies (they call them Clinics) to help you think more deeply about how to apply what you've read.
I bought this book over a year ago because my boss was reading it and recommended it to me. I then got "too busy with life" and set it aside, finally picking it up this past week. I took a couple of days to read this book, but I think it could easily be done in a day. It's an engaging read and certainly makes you think. It's the type of book you can pick up every few months to refresh yourself and think again about how to apply some of their insights to your daily world.
At the very end of the book is probably the most important point - though Defining Moments can be orchestrated, the impact they have is due not just to the Moment, but to the Action that it inspires - the difference between "receiving" a Moment and "seizing" it. That is the flaw in the brothers' framework for this book - if we (and those we're trying to influence) don't seize the moment than having orchestrated it won't matter.
Nevertheless, there are many tools that you can add to your repertoire from this book. Those are the biggest benefit of this book, more so than any framework about Defining Moments. I've knocked the book down a point to three stars because I think the framework is flawed, but as a readable "organizational self help" book it rates a four. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I admit from the start that I like the Heath brothers. I've read everything that they published including their extra material and thought they all had value. So the fact that I like this book isn't surprising, but it really is good. The writing feels light but always has a point worth making. Read this and learn how to increase the number and value of special moments.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Some great stories in the book, but I don't this is as practical as their other books. I don't think great moments can be manufactured.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Made to Stick duo has written another excellent book which I suspect will also stick. Moments is all about what common factors cause selected instances in the continuous stream of our lives to be memorable. These memorable moments can also become critical transition points or anchors in our experiences. CX and customer loyalty professionals will appreciate the research references about where to focus and how to design for stronger relationships. Anyone will benefit from the Heath’s four factors that make for Moments, whether it’s with customers, family, friends, or self. The principles are explained well, and the observant reader will notice how they are applied in the writing itself to make the book memorable.