The Power of Moments

Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

By: Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

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.

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.

Brilliant!

I love this book! It's insightful, encouraging and interesting from start to finish. I can not stop giving this book praise to my family and friends. I hope they all read it.

enlightening, inspiring

enlightening, inspiring, worth listening to multiple times. very much in line with the yogic way of thinking/acting

Great anecdotes!

I listened to this during my commute, and it made the commute so much more fun. There are a lot of good insights and the most amazing stories that go with them. I’m in my 20s, but I 100% recommend this book for all ages.

a great guide for creating impact

this is a great react to get one thinking of the how and why around creating impactful events to make a difference in people's lives.

Randomcitizen123

I loved this book! I used this to help distract myself from the negativity in the world during the COVID outbreak. The narrator was great to listen to and I felt motivated and ready to live a better life after listening to this book.