The Heaths suggest doing something like what the John Deere company did to change the first-day experience for their new employees: providing free parking, greeting them in the office lobby, having fellow employees drop by to introduce themselves, inviting new employees to lunch, decorating their desks with gifts, and performing other welcoming gestures to make them feel valued. Take, for example, a new employee’s first day on the job, which is often a ho-hum experience filled with lots of paperwork. How experiences become memorableĪccording to the Heaths, we often overlook opportunities to create peak experiences that could have long-term consequences. Connection: Strengthening our social relationships.īy doing so, they argue, we can create more peak, memorable experiences for ourselves, our family and friends, and our workforce.Pride: Capturing us at our best, when we are achieving something important or showing courage. Insight: Challenging our understanding of ourselves or the world, helping us to grow and change.Elevation: Rising above the everyday and seeming extraordinary.Their book makes the case that peak moments are essential to a happy life and that we could take steps to create more of them at work and in our personal lives.ĭrawing on what we know about emotion, meaning, and memory, the Heaths suggest that we can manipulate our experiences to stand out more by incorporating some or all of these four elements: This idea is at the heart of the new book The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. From the GGSC to your bookshelf: 30 science-backed tools for well-being.
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