There are certain personal and professional advantages to appearing smarter. It’s even better when you actually are smarter. An advanced vocabulary can give a person a certain intellectual edge over people with even an average vocabulary. The more words you know, the better you will be at conveying complex thoughts or terms. The more you […]
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First Impression is Everything FACT: Every time you enter a conversation, with every word you say … every sentence you speak … the person listening is JUDGING YOU based on what comes out of your mouth. Every day, people make assumptions about your intelligence, your education, and your capabilities by the words you use. We
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We all know: people are simply petrified of speaking in public. Whether in a meeting, at a conference, or simply addressing your peers – the fear is is real. Some even fear public speaking more than they fear death. It’s understandable: nobody wants to look like a fool in front of a single person, let
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One of my favorite movies is Good Will Hunting. If you have watched the movie, then you for sure remember the bar scene; where Chucky Sullivan (Ben Affleck) is trying to pick up some girls by pretending he goes to nearby Harvard. Then an actual Harvard student starts to mock Chucky by asking him questions
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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 simple: she must read a book from cover to cover.
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We all know that human intelligence is measured in a large part in the way we speaks. And the way we talk is a reflection of the sophistication of our thoughts. Words are tools of thought. It makes sense that intelligent people have a larger than typical vocabulary. They think better than others so they
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Have you ever wondered what sets successful CEOs like Elon Musk apart from the rest? Data shows that Fortune 500 CEOs read an average of one book per week. If you’ve ever wished you could develop a reading habit like these top executives, there’s one fundamental way to make reading easier and more enjoyable: improve
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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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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“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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