Jon Glesing

My 3 favorite things are eating my family and not using commas.

[Jon Glesing @JonGlesing]

Hey @jdouglas4, remember this? Found it in my garage. First time I’ve used it in 20+ years! Can’t wait to clean it up and getting it purring again! @IMSMuseum @IMS @IndyCar @lids

[IMS Museum 🏁 @IMSMuseum]

New on view: a display honoring Lone Star J.R.! In honor of the 50th anniversary of his second Indianapolis 500 win in 1976, a display case in the Mezzanine has been dedicated to him. Come see it this May! #ThisIsMay

[CrimsonCast @CrimsonCast]

This is absolutely envigorating stuff

[Hugh Jackman @RealHughJackman]

I am honored to deliver the commencement speech to this year’s graduating class @BallState
. https://t.co/ZNi0fVlAYT

[Jon Glesing @JonGlesing]

Year 1949. My dad was an Indianapolis Times staff photographer in those years and covered the race for many years. I have his news clips scrapbooks.

[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.

[Big Ten Football @B1Gfootball]

These numbers are INSANE, and so is D'Angelo Ponds' game 🔥 Who should take the star @IndianaFootball DB in the Draft⁉️

📍 @AutoOwnersIns #nfldraft

[Enezator @Enezator]

Just when you think you’ve won, life hits you with a surprise

[Jon Glesing @JonGlesing]

I played this, too, as a kid!

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

These dudes call this roofball and I would much rather watch it than the NBA …

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

[NCAA Men's Final Four @MFinalFour]

The stage is set 🤩

#MFinalFour

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

The @bigten is the first conference in Division I history to have 3 different schools win national championships in football (@IndianaFootball), men's basketball (@umichbball) and women's basketball (@UCLAWBB) in the same academic year.

[NCAA Men's Final Four @MFinalFour]

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Undefeated 1976 National Champions 🏆

#MFinalFour x @IndianaMBB

[Novig @Novig]

The SEC just finished 0-6 vs the Big Ten in the Tournament + CFB Playoffs combined.

[BUTLER @dawgsgrateful]

03/20/54: Bobby Plump wins it for Milan at Butler (Hinkle) Fieldhouse