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How to Speak: Patrick Winston’s MIT lecture
Study materials
English notes, a quiz, flashcards and a PPT outline are available below the player.
Slides are a PPT outline, not a finished slide deck.
Overview
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.
Why HN discusses it
HN treats it as the canonical, near-universally recommended lecture on giving talks and presentations.
Before you watch
No specialist background is required. Choose a real presentation you need to give so you can apply Winston’s suggestions to a concrete audience and purpose.
A way to study this video
Draft a short opening and closing before watching. Afterwards, revise them using one specific technique and rehearse aloud; record what changed rather than trying to adopt every suggestion at once.
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In discussion: Paper2video: Automatic video generation from scientific papers
Ah I guess if you’re very bad at presentations, then this could be beneficial. However, scientific presentations are meant to be communicating science and making things stick to your audience (no matter if it’s scientists or children you’re presenting to). This does not fix that problem at all. For anyone thinking of using this: please watch: [VIDEO] and maybe a talk from Jane Goodall on how to engagingly show your…Ah I guess if you’re very bad at presentations, then this could be beneficial. However, scientific presentations are meant to be communicating science and making things stick to your audience (no matter if it’s scientists or children you’re presenting to). This does not fix that problem at all. For anyone thinking of using this: please watch: [VIDEO] and maybe a talk from Jane Goodall on how to engagingly show your science. I would hate to see a lot of conference presentations be made with this generator. Another thing that improved my personal presentation skills was noting down why I liked a presentation or why I didn’t - what specific things a person did to make it engaging. Just paying attention to that improved my presentation skills enormously
In discussion: How to Give a Good Talk
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.
In discussion: Start presentations on the second slide
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]
In discussion: Ask HN: What talks do you consider real gems?
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]
Encourage anyone interested in communicating to watch this. [VIDEO] He has a pretty funny response to someone asking him to review slides. He immediately says there are too many words and too many slides without even looking. Which I have found to be true 90% of the time. Excellent presentation.
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