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The authors call this the awestruck effect, but it might just as easily be described as the dumbstruck effect. One observer reflected that Hitler’s persuasive impact came from his ability to strategically express emotions—he would “tear open his heart”—and these emotions affected his followers to the point that they would “stop thinking critically and just emote.”
“Whenever we wanted to persuade our staff to support a particular project we always tried to break their hearts.”
The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence
Adam Grant
To build an effective new habit, you need five essential components: a reason, a trigger, a micro-habit, effective practice, and a plan.
The Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier
The task I have to make my grandfather proud of what I do seems fairly simple, really. It's not that dissimilar to the role he took up each time he picked up his carpentry tools in his workshop.
Work hard on craft.
Measure twice, cut once.
Feel the grain; work with it, not against it.
Create something unexpected, but faithful to the source from which it sprang.
Strikes me as good advice for any act of creation. My reply is, I can do that.
Theory of Fun for Game Design
Raph Koster
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