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[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Please share this with everyone. Let’s never listen to these liars ever again. I guess CNN doesn’t need Sanjay to be a useful idiot anymore

[Denver Dad Defiant @CraigAVigil]

@JonCaldara Brilliant!

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

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.

Bookmark this first.

Follow @cyrilXBT for more lessons from the people who built the future.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Incredible that it was only 66 years from the first controlled, powered flight to landing on the Moon!

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

This is one of the most perfect things the internet has ever created.

[🏛 🌹PeriklestheGREAT 🌹 🏛 "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" @PeriklesGREAT]

"There is this crazy thing
that Generation X did"...🤣

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Almost two decades ago a high school coach put his faithful team manager into a game for the final 4 minutes.

It was Jason McElwain, who had severe autism. He had never played a single minute of competitive basketball.

This is what happened.

[GinnyM @PatriotXV11]

@bennyjohnson Thune is a problem! He is the true paid influencer! Why else is he not accommodating the will of 85% of the American population?!

[Livin in the 406 @406Christine_R]

@bennyjohnson

[Denver Dad Defiant @CraigAVigil]

@StandUpForTrmp A

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The rise in sea level over the years due to climate change.

[Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری 🇮🇷 @gghamari]

Iranian here with a message for every single American who voted for President Trump:

Thank you.

God bless President Trump.
God bless the US Military.
God bless America. 🇺🇸

[Mandalorian @Interested10101]

@TRHLofficial

[Denver Dad Defiant @CraigAVigil]

@concernedforco @Hickenlooper AbsoFingLutely

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Elon Musk: I leaned toward Democrats for a while, but then they went crazy.

“I was politically neutral for quite a while, leaning a little Democrat. But they went crazy. I mean, that whole cancel culture and trying to stop freedom of speech and infringe upon, just in general, infringe upon people's personal freedoms. They just want state control, state control of what you say. They want to take away your guns. And the reason they want to take away your guns, it's like there's nothing you can do to oppose them. We just need to restore the fundamental elements of what made America great, which is freedom and opportunity.”

Interview at CPAC 2025, February 20, 2025

[FreeStateColorado @FreeStateColor1]

I hope you are having a great weekend Colorado!

[Rocky Mountain Voice @TheRMVoice]

Buried wells, sworn affidavits and a state determined to make an example. This is the opening chapter of a 3-part series on one oil and gas company’s final stand—and what the documents and data actually reveal. Start with the towns. Stay for the verdict. @JenSchumann1776

Part 1: https://t.co/zjyVVTaN7d

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[Dan Caplis @DanCaplis]

Please read this and send it to everyone you know. We have to make sure that this campaign to intimidate and silence Jill and other supporters of DoBetterDNVR backfires on the Johnston administration and the Post. The truth will set us free.

[Denver Dad Defiant @CraigAVigil]

@JengaGriswold 🤣

[Denver Dad Defiant @CraigAVigil]

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