What is "Verbal Intelligence"?
Verbal Intelligence is the ability to "juggle" with the alphabet of letters: to combine them into words and sentences. Your Verbal IQ tends to be measured by the size and range of your vocabulary, and by your ability to see relationships between words.
Why Does Verbal Intelligence Matter?
At the beginning of the 20th century, psychologists observed that there was a direct correlation between vocabulary size and strength, and life-success. In other words, the bigger and better your vocabulary and your Verbal Intelligence, the more successful and confident you will be in your life in general -- in your work, in your social and personal life, and in your studies.
Words have tremendous power. Those people who harness the strength of words give themselves the power to persuade, to inspire, to mesmerize, and to influence in all manner of ways the human brain. It is not surprising, then, that words and their power have become one of the most important currencies in the "Knowledge Revolution" of the 21st century.
Copyright © 2002 by Tony Buzan
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How to be brilliant with words--reading, speaking, remembering and understanding them!
