Author name: Greg Ragland

How to use NLP Mirroring to Rapidly Improve Your Vocabulary

One of the main problems with your run-of-the-mill vocabulary tutorial is it presents vocabulary words in an academic desert. These programs expect you to read a word, digest its meaning, go through an example or two, file it away and have access to it forever more. That, unfortunately, is not how the brain works. We

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The Vocabulary / Reading-Comprehension Challenge

Nearly 100-years ago, a leading educational psychologist named Edward Thorndike performed a study that found students’ reading speed and comprehension test scores were directly linked to their vocabulary knowledge. Numerous studies since have concluded the same thing: the more words you know, the faster you will read, and the more you will comprehend. The fact

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The Undeniable Link Between Vocabulary & IQ

“vocabulary is probably the best single indicator of a person’s overall level of intelligence” Aside from appearance, one of the first things we notice about a person is the way they speak. The way a person talks, the words they choose, their level of articulation all work to form in us certain perceptions and conclusions.

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