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Dan Heath

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“Full of moments that stand above the rest. And in fact, with time, those moments may be the only thing you retain from the experience. And the weird thing is that that's true of a dinner. You know, you might have a spectacular appetizer or a great glass of wine. It's true of a semester in college. You might remember one professor in a particular road trip. It's even true of your life as a whole. You talk to people in their 70s or 80s or 90s about their lives and it's easy for them to come up with a dozen moments that may have shaped who they are. And so we started talking about just this insane power that particular moments seemed to have that one moment might have 10x or 100x the meaning and memorability of all the rest. And so we started brainstorming at first is this kind of intellectual exercise, but then it occurred to us there are a lot of people in the world who are in the business of shaping moments. You know, you think about”
2017-12-31 · We Study Billionaires · TIP171: The Power of Moments w/ Dan Heath (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There is actually a very specific moment in time that I look back on as the birth of this topic. My brother Chip and I were sitting in our dad's office at his home in Durham, North Carolina. It was Christmas. And we were in the midst of a discussion about a book that we later abandoned. And this is a book we've been working on for maybe six months. And in this brainstorming that day in the office, it just became clear to us that we were kind of forcing it. We weren't that excited about the topic, the conversation had become this slog. And at some point in that conversation, we got on this tangent about moments. I'm not even sure how we ended up here. I think it was just some desperate attempt at procrastination, to be honest with you. But we started just this whirlwind brainstorming about why it is that in virtually any length of experience that you have in life, there are a handful of”
2017-12-31 · We Study Billionaires · TIP171: The Power of Moments w/ Dan Heath (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT