"How to Speak" Patrick Winston
Section outline
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"How to Speak" by Patrick Winston (MIT Open Course Ware)
Patrick Winston's How to Speak talk has been an MIT tradition for over 40 years. Offered every January usually to overflow crowds, the talk is intended to improve your speaking ability in critical situations by teaching you a few heuristic rules. The lecture was uploaded onto YouTube as part of the MITOpenCourseWare series and has over 20 million views and over 5 million subscribers. We will watch the video of his lecture. While watching, you can use the notes below to follow. After watching we will discuss the strengths and weakness of this approach to public speaking.
0:16 Introduction
3:11 Rules of Engagement
4:15 How to Start
5:38 Four Sample Heuristics
10:17 The Tools: Time and Place
13:24 The Tools: Boards, Props, and Slides
36:30 Informing: Promise, Inspiration, How To Think
41:30 Persuading: Oral Exams, Job Talks, Getting Famous
53:06 How to Stop: Final Slide, Final Words
56:35 Final Words: Joke, Thank You, Examples
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