@RepBaumgartner People need a way to know if their homes are still standing and i haven’t seen an updated satellite view released, so I don’t blame people for flying drones.
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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.
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Warren Buffet: "I can end the deficit in five minutes. You juts pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection."
It took the mainstream media a long time to get there, and candidly I’m shocked they would ever actually expose the fraud, but credit where credit is due. Think of how much this costs the American taxpayer. Credit to @nickshirleyy for starting the trend in MN. Expose it all.
An Islamist group gathers to discuss a plan to Islamize and take over the UK:
“There will come a point where this oppressive rule will end. We do not accept this system we live under, which we will replace with an Islamic system."
How is this even allowed?
This is not a coincidence
Nick Shirley “Melissa Hortman, she was offed. She was killed, and she had just started to come out and speak against illegal migrants. Do you think that was a setup? Well, it's interesting because the person who shot her was a former hire of Governor Tim Walz
And so why did he target her? Because you're right, she was starting to speak out about immigration. She's a Democrat. And so it was very taboo what she was doing.”
They aren’t hiding it anymore. Democrats are openly saying they are running as Republicans
Kate Barr, North Carolina “Republican” Candidate
“I'm not a real Republican. Like I am telling people the truth. I knock on a door and I say I'm running in the Republican primary, but I'm not a Republican. I'm a progressive. I'm running as a Republican in the Republican primary for Congressional District 14 — We gotta f*cking win right now because we are in an emergency, like a democratic emergency. And so the place I can win is as a fake Republican.”
This is literally illegal, but explains why we have so many RINOs in office
Muslims assault a Christian street preacher next to University of South Florida
‘Affiliated CAIR and Muslims from USF jumped a Christian preacher, beating him relentlessly after he fell. All for boldly sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ’
The American People better wake up