Welp, the votes are all in. And thanks to you guys, I'm happy to announce that I will be making and posting content on here for my BatIM AU called 'Who's Laughing Now?'!
Do you guys wanna see me make content for my BatIM AU and post it on here? Yay or nay? (I've been running real low on motivation lately and wanna see if anyone's interested)
If you ever feel down about your art you just have to remember that it’s very special to be able to get a thought out of your head into a form that it’s able to be shared and viewed
even if it doesn’t look like a perfect copy of what you imagined… is that not insanely cool???
i want something between a book club and an english class to exist. i want learning and discussion and critical thinking without grades and criteria and school. no grammar or 12 point font just learn how to explain your thoughts in the most natural way to you
If you are lucky enough to have Raven friends why wouldn’t you spend every spare minute you have with them! 😆 Moths didn’t take long this morning so thought I see if the Ravens were about for an afternoon visit & it was lovely to see Chips tumbling in calling followed by gravy!
A dead MIT professor accidentally destroyed the $25 billion executive coaching industry with one hour of lecture, and ten million people have already watched him do it.
He filmed it once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.
Executive coaches charge sixteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in that 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.
The answer is in this video. Don't miss this gem.
I loved the cliff sequence. Wile E's basically saying "Life isn't about giving up. If you don't try again and reach for your goals, you'll never know what you're capable of."
Wise words from the coyote himself.
Ray Bradbury had a sign above his desk that said, “DON’T THINK. WRITE.” Addressing himself to aspiring authors, he explained: “Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't TRY to do things. You simply MUST do things.”