Don’t be a “Voracious Idiot!”
Have you ever watched Cougar Town? There was one episode that stuck out to me because it included a reading and vocabulary joke, with a buried lesson. In Season 6, Courtney Cox’s (Friends) character Jules asks her friends to challenge her. Their challenge to Jules is...
Executives Read Waaaay more than the Average Adult – Find Out Why
There’s a good reason executives wield such a hefty vocabulary with ease. Before you shout out the answer, It is not higher education. Only a small portion of the top 1% of business leaders possess advanced degrees. And they also consistently outscore PhD’s on...
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:...
