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How To Change Your Life

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What to study

Curiosity Gap

Changing your life sounds like years of effort. The sign says you only need 4 hours, small enough to feel doable. But it never says 4 hours of what, or whether that's a day, a week or in total, so you click to find out.

How the packaging works
Title

'How To Change Your Life' is as broad as a title gets, which lets it reach almost anyone, and leaves the thumbnail to make the promise concrete.

Thumbnail

The card looks handwritten, like a note Simon made himself, and the red line under '4 Hours' puts the weight on how little it takes.

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When your title is broad, let a prop in the thumbnail carry one small, specific number. Say how little it takes, and leave out what you spend it on, so the number raises the question.

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The transferable lesson

Pair a broad promise with a small number and no details.

NichePersonal Development
FormatHow-to / Tutorial
Click driverCuriosity GapScale & SpecificityDesired Outcome
Visual signalFace-LedPhotographyHeadline Text
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