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Made to Stick.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Urban legends stick. The Golden Rule sticks. But the last PowerPoint presentation you saw didn't stick. Why do some ideas stay with you and others you have to struggle to remember? And can we learn something useful from seeing what ideas do survive? This is what the authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die set out to discover.

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In the book, they reveal that sticky ideas of all kinds share six common traits: they are simple, ...

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