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[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.

[hombarume @ahombarume]

@Shadaya_Knight !

[Mageba @Mageba4k]

They are here to kill you.

[African @ali_naka]

What a Tragedy!!!

“They didn’t just let Tatenda Pinjisi die — they killed him.

Not with guns. Not with poison. But with neglect, indifference, and a system so rotten it has forgotten the value of a human life. He cried out in pain, begging his family for painkillers not because they were out of reach, but because in the very facility meant to heal, there was nothing. No medicine. No dignity. No hope.

Tatenda didn’t just die from illness he died from a government that steals from the sick, that celebrates the rich while the poor perish.

He is a victim of roads that are not even car-worthy roads that break bodies and wreck lives. Yet toll fees are collected every single day. For every call made in or through Zimbabwe, a cut is taken supposedly to rejuvenate our healthcare system. And yet Tatenda died from the absence of the bare minimum. Not specialist treatment. Not advanced surgery. Just basic pain relief.

Our roads are death traps. And now the hospitals are too. A nation where the journey kills you and the destination buries you.

Let this be a warning to those who are being handed posh cars as rewards for silence — if you crash on these roads, your death is guaranteed. Because the ambulances won’t come. The hospitals won’t help. The money meant to save your life is buying your car instead. And the rest is being siphoned to foreign bank accounts by cowards in suits who call themselves leaders.

Meanwhile, the vultures in Parliament — from both ZANU PF and the makeshift opposition — sit fat and quiet. Feasting. Watching. Complicit. They dine on the blood of our people. They celebrate fake victories while real heroes like Tatenda die in silence.

I wasn’t his fan. I wasn’t his relative. But I am his brother. Because his pain is our pain. His death is our call to rise. This is more than a tragedy this is a revolutionary reminder that our silence is no longer an option.

To ED and his puppet cabinet — your time is borrowed. To those trying to illegally hold power until 2030 and those who got paid to enable the anti people 2030 agenda, we see you. History sees you. And it will remember.

Rest in power, Tatenda.
Your voice was silenced, but your death will speak louder than any song.
#abasha2030
Hon K Learnmore Magorimbo

[Raghu @IndiaTales7]

Some of the Heart-Breaking Moments captured on camera.🧵

A Thread Not for the soft-hearted ⚠️

[Mesh🇧🇧 @rahsh33m]

Babygirl said "AHT AHT" 😂

[MJ Sings @iammjsings]

The pool of untapped talent in Bulawayo.
His name is Butholezwe , let’s get him heard and seen .

RT for awareness 🚀🚀

[hombarume @ahombarume]

@arubengura @zimlive What other lawyer will represent her? Where can she run to? Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi 🙄

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Being black in Finland 🇫🇮 is the same song of people of African descent all over the world.

[MaZwangendaba @mamakaCleo]

After the useless budget by Mthuli Ncube do you see anyone under Tshabangu in that parly say a word? These are the consequences of selling out. They have been captured and muzzled. Any discontent they'll be asked to repay the 40K loans. They are all finished. Those frauds!

[Black-Jesus💧🇿🇦 @KingMntungwa]

Please come explain why your employees are openly racist or you encourage such behavior. @BMW @BMW_SA @BMWGroup @BMWUSAnews @BMWEsports Let us know once he's employment is terminated. 💔💔💔

[A Mindful Somatic Kinkster @SelfReimagined_]

"My ancestors didn't survive what they survived for me to go and become a colonizer"

[hombarume @ahombarume]

@drjaytee87 Kune vanhu vakadai? Hazvirwadze here kutakura misoro yakadai?

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

PLEASE RETWEET

This is to acknowledge that the Zimbabwean youth have paid attention to the Auditor-General’s report, which has once again shown the alarming levels of corruption and looting in this country.

These brave young people of Zimbabwe are dedicating their hearts and minds to understanding and exposing the outrageous corruption in their country to their peers, as revealed by the Auditor-General’s report.

Our job as elders is simply to RETWEET so that many more young people understand the importance of this report.
What they do with it is their decision.

RETWEETING it for them costs you nothing but will bring the necessary visibility to more young people!

You can and should follow these focused youths on their Twitter handle @Youth_ZW

[hombarume @ahombarume]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[hombarume @ahombarume]

@reallobengula @TheMirrorMsv @MoHCCZim @WHO @WHO_Zimbabwe @NatlAIDStrategy @naczim @SAYWHATOrg @OfTariro @InfoMinZW @Mavhure Mory Kante Yeke Yeke / Max Producciones
https://t.co/WZpbfvBbWj

[Matt Couch @RealMattCouch]

Do you agree with Putin on this?

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🟣My poem is called “Main Actor.”

Ndini main actor
Dzviii
MaVP akasara
Dzviii
Ndikatonzi “my son”
Dzviii
Vamwe vana kumashure
Dzviii
Chiii chinonzi ZACC?
Dzviii
Mapurisa tunhanha
Dzviii
Ndakachimaster chigame ichi
Dzviii
Ndapinda hangu mundege
Dzviii
Goridhe rangu mubhegi
Dzviii
Anondituma rese rese
Dzviii
Hamuna zera neni
Dzviii
Youth League idambe
Dzviii
Vese vanondikwata
Dzviii
Ndiri politburo pachayo
Dzviii
Ndiri mutongi
Dzviii
Ndimi vatongwi
Dzviii
Ndini muhombe-hombe
Dzviii
Handisi chimombe
Dzviii
Ndiri nzou yenyika
Dzviii
Shumba inonditya
Dzviii
Party yenyu kamwana
Dzviii
Ndatonanga Dubai zvangu
Dzviii
Nehomwe yenyika
Dzviii
Kana makaona “Money Heist” iya
Dzviii
Main actor ndini
Dzviii.

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🟣You abandon road maintenance for 44 years then in year 44 patch a few patch holes and expect people to celebrate. You don’t even stop to ask yourselves - how did the roads get into such a dilapidated state under your watch? To compound matters, your mantra when fixing the roads is not so that the people have decent services but because SADC is coming in August! Tendanai ikoko! You raided tax payer money to buy non-existent goats that nobody needed and you’ve still not said sorry!

We need new leaders.🇿🇼