Ed Harkins

Displaced Michiganian living now in Illinois.

[Ed Harkins @elharks14]

@TheWyteRabbit1 And one “policeman” is wearing a hijab… 🫤

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@realMaalouf Hummm. Interesting “religion “.

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@RealJamesWoods Seems that way. 🤨

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@RealJamesWoods That’s for sure!

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@thescorechicago @mullyhaugh But it was a horrible call and inconsistent with so many others not called. Isn’t that the purpose of video reviews these days? Get the call right.

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@GovPritzker Pausing taking more money from us….be honest, Gov. Pritzker.

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@seanhannity Everything Justice Alito is saying is true. The clock is now ticking on the overthrow of America as we’ve traditionally known it. Just a matter of time until these “foreigners” take over all government authority and reshape the USA into an ungovernable polyglot mess.

[Ed Harkins @elharks14]

Excellent advice!

[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.

[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.

[Ed Harkins @elharks14]

@Pontifex Islam…submit or die. How they evangelize.

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@AntiWokeMemes Not one word, but: A small number of crazy old white libs…

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@SecretFire79 Correction: Islamic terrorists!

[Ed Harkins @elharks14]

Incredible if close to being true!

[@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray]

ENOUGH 🚨

Before Biden there were (17M) on Snap, during Biden that number shot up to (42M)

(59%) of the people collecting Snap are Illegals, there's more immigrants on Snap than Americans

Raise your hand ✋️ if you want the entire Snap program audited and overhauled

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@MistyLawFlurry @fried_egg_golf That wasn't necessary, Rory. Dummy! American fans love Bryson, most of them anyway. So, dumb move, unless you don't intend to golf over here any more.

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@fried_egg_golf Rory's a good guy and doesn't deserve all the crap he gets. It's embarrasing to see that childish stuff from fellow American fans.

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@GuntherEagleman @LeaderJohnThune Thune must be dirty too. Only explanation. ☹️

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@ThomasSowell Who?

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@bankertobuilder Looks like Starbucks. Hah

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@libsoftiktok Interesting city…is it in America?

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@GovPritzker Carve up every state into equalized segments and end all this gerrymandering. Dems would never ever agree to a simple solution like that. Or carve things up based on existing real boundaries of school districts or counties or something simple and keep them that way. K.I.S.S.