The Power of Verbal Intelligence
Book Name: The Power of Verbal Intelligence: 10 ways to tap into your verbal genius
Writer: Tony Buzan
Reviewed by: Muhammad Jabran
This book revolves around one concept that “words are powerful”. They add meanings, confidence and power to our lives, without them, we cannot achieve anything. These words make a strong group of vocabulary and then transform themselves into intelligence.
Verbal intelligence creates our mental strength. Our thoughts, ideas and themes are merely the echo of our vocabulary.
Tony Buzan, who is the master of mind mapping, explains different aspects of words. He believes that words are integral part of our personality. They can even make or break us. Therefore, it is worthwhile to study the nature of words.
Three significant techniques explained in a professional way to approach words were; roots, affixes, and suffixes.
He admired and paid tribute to Leonardo Da Vinci and said that he was the master of verbal intelligence. Using this intelligence, he became polymath, the master of various arts.
This book is fruitful in many ways. A reader can learn different tricks and tactics to improve his/her memory of words. It elaborates various techniques to approach words in numerous ways.
There are verbal games like “Unscramble Words” and “Guess the Words” presented in each chapter to test the mind of a reader. These verbal exercises equip you sharpening your mind.
Honestly, i have no experienced to such kind of Intelligence. It was new for me, probably, because of the education system I have in an under developed country.
It is a necessary book for those students who wants to enhance their English vocabulary. It assists them in various ways to become verbal genius.
The base of power is a vocabulary, which boosts our social life and makes us intelligent.
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