A dead MIT professor accidentally destroyed the $20 billion executive coaching industry with one hour of lecture, and ten million people have already watched him do it.
He filmed it once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.
Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in that one hour for free.
His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.
Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."
His entire framework fits on a napkin.
Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."
That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.
"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."
That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.
Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.
The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.
Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.
The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.
This is exactly why a stable Naira is far more better than an artificially strong but volatile Naira, you may not notice anything when naira suddenly moves from ₦200 to ₦300 in a week because of a global event that shouldn’t even concern you, but for the big players with the big money who are holding naira, that’s catastrophic, and these are the people you expect to invest and create the jobs? LOL jokes on you
The economic reforms were non negotiable, it doesn’t matter what the “common man” says, we must commend the Bola Tinubu administration for doing what needed to be done
This so much shows how people have no sense of propriety and opinion becomes fluid when money and a stupendous amount of it are involved. Material success creates this halo effect where people infer wisdom or moral approval from financial outcomes.
The values you hold and second-order effect of your actions mean nothing to Nigerians provided you can demonstrate a lavish lifestyle. And what’s crazy is that we call it grace.
Our idea of grace is whoever ends up having money or fame or both and everything questionable be overlooked. Nigerians associating Grace with money is very problematic for me because I know the church is complicit.
@Wizarab10 Thoughts are spiritual, words are spiritual. Anything done with conscious, continuous and focused thought flow (be it sex, prayer, eating etc. ) becomes spiritually influenced for the waves of vibration that are emitted by the brain activity influences the spirit realm.
🌍 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to fresh water 😧
And by 2050, 5 billion will face water shortages! 🫗🚱
Water is essential, yet we take it for granted every day.
For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.
The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.
It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.
That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
RULES OF LIVING WITH PEOPLE
1. When you meet young people - INSPIRE THEM.
2. When you meet children - EDUCATE THEM.
3. When you meet old people - HELP THEM.
4. When you meet wise people - STUDY THEM.
5. When you meet leaders - HONOUR THEM.
6. When you meet foolish people - AVOID THEM.
7. When you meet humble people - TREASURE THEM.
8. When you meet arrogant people - IGNORE THEM.
9. When you meet gracious people - EMULATE THEM.
10. When you meet aspirational people - ELEVATE THEM.
11. When you meet strong people - SUPPORT THEM.
12. When you meet godly people - BLESS THEM.
13. When you meet elderly people - RESPECT THEM.
14. When you meet weak people - STRENGTHEN THEM.
15. When you meet hardworking people - ENCOURAGE THEM.
16. When you meet kind people - ESTEEM THEM.
17. When you meet Honest people -
PROMOTE THEM.
18. When you meet virtuous people - REWARD THEM.
19. When you meety evil people - EVADE THEM.
20. And in all situation “ Watch, Pray and wish everyone well.