Xenophobia: “We will shut down all South African businesses in Nigeria. Nobody has the monopoly to v+olence” — newly elected Nigeria University Students President
"Mother Khadijah is the most wonderful friend and wife that a man could have. To hold a position that God has placed me in, I couldn't handle that without somebody by my side who helps me, and that is Mother Khadijah."
Hon Min L Farrakhan
Join us in lifting The Honorable Minister @LouisFarrakhan and the entire Farrakhan family in our prayers.
🔗 Full replay of the Sunday message delivered by Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad https://t.co/ZNOfY3xQrj
🔗 Statement on Mother Khadijah Farrakhan https://t.co/hyLPfAyTOb
#MotherKhadijah #Farrakhan #NOISundays
The Honorable Minister @LouisFarrakhan with deep sadness yet with profound gratitude to Allah informs you that his beloved wife of 72 years, the First Lady of the Nation of Islam, Mother Khadijah has returned to Allah (may Allah be pleased).
A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.
He died 5 months after recording it.
It was his final gift to the world.
Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years.
The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom.
And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.
How to speak.
15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:
Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end.
Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.
The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.
Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.
Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.
Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.
Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing.
Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously.
Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.
Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by.
End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.
Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands.
Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.
The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.
Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.
Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.
Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.
You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.
Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.
He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.
Watch it tonight.
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A witch caught by isangoma, she is now spilling the news and telling them who she works with at night.
If you did not believe that witchcraft is real, this might help you change your mind 😭🤧🤧😭