Hey, It's Min Liu from The Art Of Verbal War where people learn to excel in verbal skills
Last week I released a video where I taught you how to increase your verbal fluency
If you didn't see that video, verbal fluency again is the brain's ability
To translate your thoughts into spoken word
Haven't you met someone who has the true gift of gab?
Someone who can talk about a subject
And ramble on it endlessly, without ever stopping
Or someone who is truly eloquent
People like that have a high level of verbal fluency
And a high-level verbal fluency is something that you definitely want to have
If you want to excel in verbal skills
There's a lot of different ways to increase your verbal fluency
But one of the primary ways that people will know of
Is to conduct some sort of daily practice of free association exercises
Like I do on a daily basis
So in this video I'm going to give you two exercises that you can do on a daily basis
Whether you're in the shower or you're driving in the car.
Or if you're just at home by yourself
That you can use to increase your own verbal fluency greatly
So this first exercise is what I call Basic Association
This exercise is going to increase your ability talk about any subject endlessly
So Step 1 of this exercise is to pick any word
It could be a word like Baby
Step 2 is you're going to come up with another word that relates to the original word
So for example Pajamas
And you're going to keep doing this for about one minute initially
And now here's another tip before you do this
Download a metronome App and set it at 60 beats per minute
Which means you're going to come up with one word every second of the minute
So it's going to go something like this
Baby, Pajamas, Diapers, Milk, Cheese, Pizza, Pepperoni
Okay, something like that.
You're going to do that for about one minute.
So if you mess up don't worry about it, don't judge yourself
All you're trying to do is to practice this free-flowing state of mind
Okay, now let's go on to the next exercise
Okay, so the second exercise is called Non-Association
And you're going to do it in about roughly the same way as the first exercise
Except the one difference is instead of choosing related words
You're going to choose completely unrelated words
And the reason why we do this exercise is yes to train your verbal fluency
But also to train your ability to converse on many different topics
In different threads, changing subjects
Because that's an essential part of developing great conversational skills
So it's going to go something like this
Let's start with the original word Baby
Okay, so it's going to go something like this
Again set your metronome to 60 beats per minute
And you're going to riff on the word Baby
Baby, Sky, Grass, Building, blah-blah
I need you to go on for a minute
So I know this exercise is a lot harder than the first one
But it's crucial, you'll get it!
Just keep practicing, don't get frustrated
And again, don't judge yourself.
Okay? I hope you like these two exercises
You're going to find if you practice these exercises daily
Maybe within two weeks your verbal fluency-- you're going to find it increasing
I promise you!
So let me know how it goes for you in the comments below this video
I'd love to hear about it
Okay, I hope you liked those two exercises
If you just do nothing but these exercises, I promise your verbal fluency will go skyrocket
But if you're interested in learning even more exercises
To increase and maximize your verbal fluency
Go to www.artofverbalwar.com/vf
And I'll show you even more exercises
That you can do to increase your verbal fluency
Okay, that's it for today, until next time!
I'm Min Liu from The Art Of Verbal War
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