Through research and personal experience, we have found that the most crucial factors determining who succeeds with clicker-based teaching, who gives up, and who merely muddles along have far more to do with instructors' deeper attitudes, models, and professional thought habits than with which "best practices" they try or what support they receive. This paper summarizes the presentational components of a conference workshop exploring some of these hidden perspectives and how they underlie clicker use. A bibliography is included. (Contains 3 figures.)