Playing it safe gets you polite nods and zero memories.

Safe work is easy to approve of and hard to remember, because nothing in it costs the viewer anything. Agreement is a low-energy response. The pieces that stay with people usually contain something that could have failed, and the risk is part of what makes them land.

Find the place in your current work where you softened something to avoid an objection. Put some of it back, in one piece, and see what kind of response you get instead of the nod.