《The Power of Moments》简介：

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.

《The Power of Moments》摘录：

对于那些因未来不如过去更让人记忆深刻而发愁的人，我们的建议就是，要尊重“多样性是生活中的调味品”这句老话中的智慧，但同时也要注意，这句话可没有说“多样性是生活中的主菜”。没有人会把胡椒和草药当饭吃。小小的新鲜感的确有着巨大的威力，但还是要学会读懂属于你自己的脚本。你可以改写脚本、反转脚本、颠覆脚本，但不要把这当作主业，只要保持那“棕色的鞋子”能带给你足够的新鲜感就行 通过打破脚本，我们能够制造一系列更加丰富多彩的记忆。就像《惊讶心理学》一书的两位作者所写的那样:“当万事确定时我们感到最为安心;但当万事不定时，我们却感到最有活力。”