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How to Speak

MIT OpenCourseWare · 23.5M views · 2019-12-20 · 1:03:43

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Patrick Winston's long-running MIT lecture on public speaking teaches heuristic rules for talks. It covers how to start, use time and place, boards, props and slides, and how to inform, persuade and finish.

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HN treats it as the canonical, near-universally recommended lecture on giving talks and presentations.

Recommended by 17 HN people across 16 months · HN mentions 2020–2025

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loughnane · 2025-09 · Strong recommendation

This title reminds me of Patrick Winston's "How to Speak" lecture at MIT. It's the best of its kind that I've seen. An hour long and I've watched it several times. Even my highschooler was impressed. [VIDEO] EDIT: no way, it was just posted yesterday. Glad it got the attention.

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robomartin · 2024-06 · Strong recommendation

In my opinion, Professor Patrick Winston's lecture (MIT) is likely in the top-5 when it come to advice on how to give presentations. I have used his framework multiple times, for both technical and business presentations in groups of a few to hundreds of people and have always had good results. Well worth watching. [VIDEO]

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croo · 2024-01 · Strong recommendation

MIT lecture by Patric Winston: How to speak is the lecture you need to watch about public speaking and presentation. The most awesome thing about the lecture that it is self describing it's tools and framework in an awesome way and built up exactly as it's content describe is should. It's on youtube: [VIDEO]

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