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8/14/2019 Verbal Success

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I want to congratulate you for taking this important step toward improving your vocabulary. You areabout to learn why improving your vocabulary is the single smartest investment you can make in yourfuture.

Yes, its true! research has proven over and over again that having a superior vocabulary will help

catapult you to success, but conversely, a poor vocabulary will hold you back in life.That is why this first lesson is focused on getting you excited about improving your vocabulary. We wantto motivate you to start taking steps in your life that will help you to amass a powerful and success-driven vocabulary. Did you know that if you improve your vocabulary you will

Read Faster and Comprehend More Information

Increase your intelligence and your IQ

Earn better grades in school

Achieve greater success and earn more money in your

career!

Yes, its true! Research has shown over and over that byimproving your vocabulary you will receive all of the benefitsabove and many more. In todays lesson, we want to motivate youand excite you about improving your vocabulary. We hope to dothis by reviewing with you some of the studies that prove theimportance of building a superior vocabulary.

When youcomplete thisVerbal Successprogramyou will possessthe toolsneeded to quicklyandeasily amass apowerful,success-drivenvocabulary.Lets begin...

You can skim over these studies, as the main intent of todays lesson is to get you excited about thisVerbal Success course and to motivate you to complete the program.

IMPROVING YOUR VOCABULARY WILL HELP YOU TO

Read Faster and Comprehend MoreNearly 100 years ago, a leading educational Psychologist named Edward Thorndike performed a studythat found students reading speed and comprehension test scores were directly linked to theirvocabulary knowledge. This was first proven nearly 100 years ago, and many studies since haveconcluded the same thing: the more words you know, thefaster you will read, and the more you willcomprehend.

The fact that your vocabulary will affect your reading speed and comprehension is a pretty intuitiveconceptit only makes sense that the more words you know the faster you will be able to read andrecognize these words as well as comprehend the information you are reading.

By taking this Verbal Success course you will learn how to improve your vocabulary so that you canread faster and comprehend more information.

IMPROVING YOUR VOCABULARY WILL HELP YOU TOIncrease your Intelligence and Your IQ

If you speak with anyone involved with intelligence testing, you will quickly learn that verbal skillsconstitute an important part of standard intelligence tests. Vocabulary is a critical component of wellknown IQ tests such as the WAIS and the Stanford-Binet. And if you were to ask intelligence testingexperts what ONE thing (or trait) they would use to best measure a persons intelligence, you wouldfind that almost all experts would select vocabulary.

VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE IS A STRONG INDICATOR OF IQ


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Studies have shown the correlation between vocabulary testscores and IQ to be between 0.8-0.9, meaning a personsvocabulary will predict with very high accuracy how wellthey score on an IQ test. In other words, if I were to give you

a vocabulary test, your test score would predict with very highaccuracy how well you would score on an IQ test.

By using the Verbal Success program to improve yourvocabulary, you will also increase your intelligence as wellas your ability to score high on an IQ test .

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Improve Your Grades in School

There have been a number of studies that show a direct correlation between a students vocabulary

knowledge and their success in school.

Simple 29-Word Test Accurately Predicts Academic Success or Failure

To begin, lets take a look at a study performed by the University of Illinois. The University of Illinoiscreated a simple, 29-word vocabulary test that, when given to freshmen, could accurately predict theirfuture academic success or failure. Now thats pretty amazing if you think about it: a simple 29-wordvocabulary test could predict, with accuracy, how well a student would do in school! This study clearlyproves the importance of vocabulary in learning and achieving academic success.

Closer Evaluation: If you are a skeptic like me, you may have noticed a paradox here. And that is,what came first? Is a person born intelligent and therefore is able to learn words easier, and from this,be more intelligent and perform better at school? Or can you work to improve your vocabulary, and bydoing so, improve your ability to learn new information, express your ideas, and do well in school?Well, Im happy to say that a study conducted by several Universities proved the latter. Lets take a

look at this study

Multiple Universities Conclude that by Improving Your VocabularyYou Will Achieve Greater Academic Success

Several Universities participated in a study whereby they enrolled a sample group of freshmen in aVocabulary Coursea course designed to help a student improve his or her vocabulary. The universitiesthen went on to track this sample group of freshmen against the rest of the students at theuniversities. What they found was that the sample group of freshmen, who successfully completedthe vocabulary course, went on to outperform all of the other students at these universities.

Now, this study really gets me excited and it should get you excited as well! Because, what this studyclearly proves, is that anyone, and I repeat, anyone, regardless of education or socio-economicbackground, can improve his or her ability to learn and succeed in school by simply improving his or hervocabulary.

By using the Verbal Success program to improve your vocabulary, you too will be able to improve yourability to learn new information and be more successful in school.


Achieve Greater Financial and Career Success

Vocabulary Test Accurately Predicts Your Future Income Bracket

Now that we have seen how vocabulary can impact your academic success, lets look at how vocabularycan impact your professional and career success. Probably one of the best studies to highlight this is a


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20 year study performed by renowned self-help expert Earl Nightingale. In this study, graduatingseniors in college were tested on their vocabulary knowledge. Earl Nightingale then went on to trackthe study participants careers for 20 years.

Without a single exception, Earl Nightingale was able toconclusively prove that your vocabulary can either catapult you to

the top income bracket or derail your career into the lowest incomebracket. And the good news is, its never too late to improve yourvocabulary and gain an edge in life and more success in yourcareer.

Vocabulary Test Scores Correlate withRank on the Corporate Ladder

There have been dozens of other studies that prove the directcorrelation between vocabulary knowledge and career success, butlets just focus on a couple more. One study that is particularlyinteresting was performed by scientist Johnson OConnor. Thisstudy found a direct correlation between vocabulary and rank on

the corporate ladder. In the study, a vocabulary test was given toexecutive and supervisory personnel in 39 large manufacturingcompanies.

What EarlNightingale found

in his study wastruly remarkable:in every singlecase, without asingle exception,those who scoredhighest on thevocabulary testwent on to be inthe top incomebracket, while

thosewho scored thelowest went on tobe inthe lowestincomebracket.

The test results reported the following:

Presidents and Vice presidents averaged 236 out of a possible 272 points

Managers averaged 168 out of a possible 272 pointsSuperintendents averaged 140 out of a possible 272 points

Foremen averaged 114 out of a possible 272 points

Floor Bosses averaged 86 out of a possible 272 points

In virtually every case, vocabulary correlated with executive level and rank on the corporate ladder.

Research Study Proves that Vocabulary is the Only CommonCharacteristic Shared by Successful People

Another study performed by the Human Engineering Lab concluded that the only commoncharacteristic of successful people in the United States was their vocabulary. This was a prettyremarkable finding, so I will repeat it: the only common characteristic shared by successful peoplewas their superior vocabulary.

The Human Engineering Lab tested the vocabularies of people from every education level and socio-economic background. The test results found, once again, that people earning the highest incomesscored highest on the vocabulary test. In addition to testing vocabulary, the Human Engineering Labperformed numerous tests and found that the only common characteristic shared by successful peoplewas, in fact, a superior vocabulary!

Now, when asked why vocabulary is linked with financial success, the President of the HumanEngineering Lab had a very interesting answer. He made the following statement:


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Why do large vocabularies characterize executives and possibly outstanding men and women in otherfields? The final answer seems to be that words are the instruments by means of which men and womengrasp the thoughts of others and with which they do much of their own thinking; essentially, words arethe tools of thought.

Now that may sound a little pretentious to you, but the message should resonate. Words are our toolsof thought. Words are how we learn and words are what we use to convey our knowledge. You may also

want to think of words as your tools for success.

GET EXCITED!

You are on Your Way to Improving Your Vocabulary

The Verbal Success Program is a step-by-step program designed to help you to improve yourvocabulary with a focus on your success in life.

I hope these studies have helped motivate you to read through every lesson in the Verbal Successprogram. By completing the Verbal Success program you will improve your vocabulary so that youwill...

Read Faster and Comprehend More

Increase your intelligence and your IQ

Earn better grades in school

Achieve greater success and earn more money in your career!

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