Prof Nick Embleton 🦋 🤱 🎓 🌎 🌈 🩺 🔬

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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. Bookmark this first. Follow @cyrilXBT for more lessons from the people who built the future.

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One of the best sketches I’ve ever seen 🤣

Some colorful paintings currently available at Blu Dog Gallery in Oakville, Ontario

Hi! This is my painting 'Northern Spirit VIII' 8x8 inch acrylic on canvas. It is available in my etsy store. Have a great evening! monicamorrillart.etsy.com

Miriam Margolyes asked the Queen to tell the King: "We love him and we want him to get better and to take no notice of anyone who criticises him because he’s just wonderful." Camilla, who is hosting a reception to celebrate Women of the World, replied: "I will bear that in mind"

Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape painter from Canada. This is my art, hope you like it! Have a great evening!

Good morning! This is a painting from a few years ago. 'Quiet Contemplation' 36x48 acrylic on canvas Have a wonderful day!

Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape painter from Canada. This is my art, hopefully the algorithm shares it with you! Have a great evening!

Maternal Asthma associated with increased risk #ROP n=2237 infants with ROP; n=301 maternal asthma Possible effect of asthma on placenta, fetal lung development, neonatal IGF-1, & interleukin-6 levels Fascinating! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐐 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲! 💡Help us understand long-term challenges, and improve support for future families! ➡️ de.surveymonkey.com/r/X22GCNJ?lang… @NeoResearch_Net

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Families with children born preterm. Please share Your experiences with 1000s of other families. Thank you!

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