Hey, it's Min Liu from the art of verbal war where people learn to excel in verbal skills
In this video, you're gonna learn three things
Number one: What is verbal fluency?
Number two: You're gonna learn the two ways to test your verbal fluency
And number three: We're gonna compare your results to those of others.
Are you ready to get started?
So what is verbal fluency?
Verbal fluency simply put is the ease with which you can access your mental vocabulary
What does that mean?
In simpler terms the ease with which you can produce words
And why is that important?
Well, if you want to be a great communicator or speaker you have to have high verbal fluency
The greatest communicators and speakers that you know
Such as Oprah Winfrey or Gary Vaynerchuk (Gary Vee)
They all have high verbal fluency
so the better that your verbal fluency is the more potential that you'll have
To be a great speaker or communicator
And that's because words come to you easy
But if you have poor or below average verbal fluency
You're always going to struggle to put even two words together.
I hope that's not you, but even if it is don't worry
I've discovered up to 20 verbal fluency exercises that you can use to train your own verbal fluency
So are you ready to test your verbal fluency and see where you're at now?
Okay, let's get started
Okay at this point I want you to get out your smartphone
Go to the audio recorder and click record and keep it running
Verbal fluency test number one: Semantic or Category fluency
List all the animals you can think of in the next 60 seconds
And keep your audio recorder running after you're done
You will be doing this one more time
Please start
Okay now go back to the beginning of the 60-second timer
And let's do this again with food as your category
Keep that audio recorder recording
Okay now stop recording and listen to the audio file you just recorded
And count the total number of words in the two tests
Do not count pronouns or repeats
Take the total and divide by two and that is your average for test number one
Please post your score your age and your gender in the comments for everyone to see
Verbal fluency test number two: Phonetic or Letter fluency
List all the words that you think of that start with the letter F in the next 60 seconds
And remember to keep your audio Recorder running after you're done.
You will be doing this test two more times after this first time
please start
Okay now go back to the beginning of the 60-second timer and do this exercise again
Twice with the letter A and then the letter S and keep that audio recorder running
Now stop your audio recorder and listen to the audio file you just recorded
And count the total number of words in the three rounds you just did
Do not count pronouns or repeats
Take this total and divide by three and that is your average for test number two
Again please post your score your age and your gender
In the comments for everyone to see
Okay, so let's talk results now
Test number one tests semantic fluency
Which is a measure of overall language ability and executive functioning
And test number two tests phonetic fluency
Which is according to researchers, a somewhat incomplete but shortcut measure
Of your overall cognitive functioning
Now let's drill down into your specific results.
From what I've seen in reviewing all the scientific papers out there
There is no accepted definition of what a good result is
All we have are what researchers have said is a poor result
Which is people who don't score above a certain threshold
Are deemed to have some potential cognitive deficits
So researchers have said that a score of lower than 14 or 15 and maybe even 17
Is indicative of some problems
So hopefully you scored above that, but if you didn't you may want to go see a doctor
So here's another benchmark for you
In a recent 2014 study of older adults, I think people over 65
The average score for test number one was 22, and the average score for test number two was 15
So check your results against this
So most of you guys are probably not over 65 years of age
You are probably well below 65
So if you scored over 22, that's fantastic
So what I'm trying to say is that there's still no established benchmark
For what's considered good or great or excellent, right?
So I think that's really important
And that's why I want you guys to post your results
So people who see this video in the future can check their results against all of yours
And I think that'll be a fantastic resource for everyone
Okay, so generally, how did you do with these two tests?
Now if you didn't do as well as you thought you would do or if you want to get even better
Really, then you got to find ways to improve your verbal fluency
And I know some people recommend using supplements or nootropics
But I'm personally against that
Because I think there's a long term cost to using those things
But don't worry, you can improve your verbal fluency dramatically
Just by doing the two exercises you just learned
Do them three to five minutes a day do them while you're driving to work
Or do them while you're sitting on the can
But remember when you do these exercises, make sure you verbalize it
Don't do it just in your head
Okay, that's really key, because you're training verbal fluency
I know some of you though are hardcore
And you want to not just improve your verbal fluency
You want to dial it up to the max?
Remember I said earlier there's up to 20 exercises that you can do to train your verbal fluency
If you want to learn these exercises, go to:
www.artofverbalwar.com/vf
And get a preview of my training course
Double Your Verbal Fluency In 30 Days
Again, it's at:
www.artofverbalwar.com/vf
Okay, I hope you learned a lot about verbal fluency
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Until next time, I'm Min Liu