Ten million people have watched an MIT professor accidentally destroy the executive coaching industry.
He filmed the lecture 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 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.
@grok@SabbyJamm@ScottPresler@SenatorWarnock@grok the mandated voting seems strange. Can you do a deeper dive into why that would ever be included? Also address all the concerns in this greater post... Did this have any ability to degrade individual rights &/or invite non-citizen voting? Examine the state's rights to votes
One of the most destructive hidden lessons taught in all public schools is that you have no freedom of association… That you can’t discriminate against people who don’t align with your values.
In 1948 they made literal training videos on how to spot fake news. Now they teach kids that all news is real and questioning things is bad...
Bring back the 40s 👏👏👏
Many people mistakenly think that the main battles in society are between the haves and the have-nots. But what’s really happening is that the haves are trying to seize money, resources, and status from the have-mores—and they disguise this motive as concern for the have-nots.
You even saw this recently in New York, where Mamdani failed to win over poor and working-class voters. But he did win support from the upper-middle class. Then, when you move to the very top of the income scale, the dynamic flips again—the wealthiest New Yorkers were more likely to back someone like Cuomo.
So a lot of these political battles, especially around socialism, aren’t being driven by the poor. They’re being driven by people who are doing well, but who are angry they’re not at the very top. It’s less about the 99% versus the 1%, and more about the 9% versus the 1%. The bottom 90% aren’t really part of that fight.
I’m reading We Have Never Been Woke by sociologist Musa al-Gharbi, and he makes a similar point. He notes that during the Occupy Wall Street protests in the early 2010s, most of the participants were white, college-educated, upper-middle-class people—people who were objectively doing fine, but were upset they were in the top 10% instead of the top 1%.
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If you STILL don't understand why I talk so much about politics (ArEn'T yOu A DaTiNg cOaCh?), here's the simplest way I can put it:
Men prefer women who are pretty and pleasant. Other things matter, but not as much.
Women prefer men with the same traits, PLUS SUPERIORITY (competence and confidence). That means acquiring, creating, maintaining, repairing, and defending things that matter to her.
So aside from looks, there's no difference between what makes you Prince Charming and what makes you the creator of civilization and the bringer of golden ages.
In short: If you DO STUFF that MAKES WOMEN HAPPY (not what they SAY to do but what actually WORKS), you GET WOMEN plus you MAKE THE WORLD BETTER at the same time.
And right now, we're suffering from a severe "listening to women" problem. They say "we like flowers" and you get them flowers and they go ICK.
They say "share your feelings and be passive and liberal and apologize for existing!" and you do it and they go ICK, GROSS and no one has children and everything collapses.
If you DO THESE THINGS instead, not only do they like you more, but you become the solver of problems.
A near perfect summary of the Russia-Ukraine war from the former Singaporean foreign minister George Yeo - note the starting point is the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia over Kosovo. #Realpolitik
Sensitivity is correlated to IQ. Higher IQ people have more delicate palates that don't need to be satiated by raping a dish with spices. They are more cognizant of smells and less tolerant of unpleasant stenches in the air. They experience finer tactile feedback and as a result make more thoughtful decisions about their clothes, furniture, and possessions.
When you have an intelligence level that surpasses the barrier for sentience (~120 IQ or higher), you at least have a bare minimum awareness of aesthetics and how they affect your life. You can then participate in the most basic preference curation which defines you as at the very least, a human being and not some shambolic meandering golem content to linger around in filth.
Bare minimum human intelligence allows you to differentiate between an environment that looks ugly and one that looks pleasant. And most of all, it allows you to notice the differences between pleasant sounds and unpleasant sounds, and furthermore determine an optimal volume and context for those sounds.
Stupid people don't understand these things. God gave them a much more narrow band of detection for all five senses. Stupid people, like third worlders, the impoverished, and descendants of slave chattel, all occupy hellish environments with little to no cognizance of their disruptive properties.
Stupid people will belch burp and fart around each other, letting their children rub snot on the walls and run around screaming at the top of their lungs while their fire alarms chirp out in a Promethean eternity of cacophony, carried out in an unbroken Olympic flame between the busted speaker trap music in their shitty looking buttplug shaped Nissans to the loudmouth yokel triple digit decibel gas station conversations amidst a flurry of industrial cookware timer alarms and African uber driver bluetooth headpiece babbling.
Stupid people will clothe themselves with DNA altering polyester chemical leak clothing, decorated in garish psychological bioweapon graphics in puke green tone swatches, completely ignorant to the cloth feel of brillo pad sewage filter abrasion that rubs their oily unbathed skin every single day without a trace of discomfort or second thought.
Stupid people will fill their lives with a pungent mixture of 7-11 pasta water, Fabuloso, and ambient carpet nug grime weed floating around them in a symphony of gag inducing scents, playfully harmonizing with intermediate dispersions of stale tobacco from the inside of grimy cheap purses creeping in between a bass line of sweat, dried cum, and faint hints of piss. All of it collides brutally with the trace hints of cat shit and ferret juice, unkempt moldy aquarium water, the molted feathers of birds, or whatever other animals they keep inside their cramped black mold homes despite every economic factor of their existence imploring them to not have pets.
Stupid people are incapable of processing that the bathroom tile grease stain taco dog meat restaurant they love "pigging out" at is, in fact, not an appealing backdrop for 5mm shit angle selfies in bright fluorescent lighting to go on their unorganized Facebook pages. Furthermore, they're unable to determine that a bowl of oily brown sludge mixed with melted cheese and a disparate ejaculation of day old chipotle ranch, tossed together in a plastic bowl and covered in seed oil crushed Dorito chips is not only NOT "good eating" and NOT a good candidate for sending meal pics, but is in fact an abomination of consumption, a culinary equivalent of getting raped in a prison cell.
When stupid people are mistakenly given freedom to dress themselves, choose which products to purchase, determine what foods to eat, and allowance to be anywhere in public unsupervised, they will default to picking the worst decision possible every single time. By some form of serendipitous instinct, they will unconsciously attempt to turn their immediate surroundings into a manifestation of hell, a portal to eternal torment leaking into the material plane through their working hands. This is because stupid people are incapable of defending themselves from demonic possession.
When you are in an environment exposed to stupid people, you are tortured by the decisions they make. They twist corkscrews into your eyes and earlobes without even realizing that they're doing it. The hell you experience by proximity to their existence is a punishment from God directed at you, simply for the sin of having allowed lesser creatures to participate in society freely.