Have you ever had a time when you're trying to explain something and you're looking for that one word and for some reason it just doesn't come to your mind and you just get stuck on that word because you know there's a perfect word for this thing that you're trying to express but for some reason it just won't come out
So that is when you're in a low verbal fluency state some people are constantly in that state and some people are rarely ever in that states or don't even know how that even feels like how to speak fast and smarts
All about verbal fluency my name is Tina leader
So before we get into it I wanted to go over what two verbal fluency is and why should we even care, now verbal fluency is how quickly you can access certain words or sentences when you think and you express when you talk it out loud
So that is the verbal parts in the fluency part is how fast you can access it to go ahead and express it when we think about great communicators it really goes down to three different aspects
Number one the content, number two accessing that's content within your own mind and then number three how the person expresses that content
So you have to have the content you have to be able to access it with your brain and then you have to be able to thirdly express that content
So now we're talking about speaking fast and speaking intelligently, you really have to think about "okay how fast can I retrieve the information I want to retrieve and how can I access all of that and express it at the same time" because it's not just about how you say things and your tonality, it's also how quickly can you access the information that you need to access, you're not just sitting there going uh well and all of that can be partially because you're insecure maybe you're not confident enough maybe you're not sure of what the situation is or maybe you have lack verbal fluency
So interestingly enough there's a test out there for verbal fluency and it's called the controlled oral word association test. So I just thought to myself why not do a verbal fluency test with you and then you can always come back to this blog and see if you've improved or maybe hopefully you didn't go backwards
But let's just see how much we improve and then how we can improve our verbal fluency going forward so number one go ahead and get your phone so you can record your own voice number two put on the screen 60 seconds for you to come up with words in each category so we're gonna do this three separate times of 60 seconds each and during that 60 seconds I want to make sure that you come up with as many words as you possibly can and you have to make sure you say it out loud don't just say it in your head
Hence the reason that's who you are going to record from your phone record the 60 seconds when the screen comes and you're going to record first as many words as possible that begins with the letter F and then second as many words as possible that begins with the letter A and then third as many words as possible that begins with the letter s
So let's go with F first three two one
now go ahead and stop that recording and
we're going to do another recording and
this time it's on the letter A three two
one
all right now go ahead and stop that
recording right here and now we're going
to start with the letter S here we go
three two one
Congratulations you have done the verbal fluency test
So here is what I want you to do go ahead and go back to your recording and number down or tally down, how many words that you have used within that 60 seconds now if it's a repeat word that doesn't count right if it's a repeat word please don't count it and if it's a word that's let's say Apple and apples that counts as one word so you can't cheat and go Apple Apple's boat boats that doesn't count so that counts as one word so telling it that way in each section the F the a and the s go ahead and add it together divided by three and we have your average now
Technically speaking there is no scientifically proven average however if you are below eighteen eighteen to twenty you should go see a doctor there might be something wrong with either your cognition or you might have brain fog or something that is stopping you from having normal verbal fluency
So if you are above at least eighteen then we can measure from here and this is going to be a starting point you can always come back to this blog and retest
So you might be thinking to yourself well. Okay great now I know where I'm at Tina and there is no generally accepted here's the average here's above-average here's excellent
So then where do I go from here so I always believe in progression not perfection we want to progress to where we are at right now as a base and then go up from here
So how do you increase your verbal fluency now you can do the same exact test that you've done here the F the a the S the problem is you might start to remember some words and you might repeat it just game the system so instead of doing the same exact test as a form of exercise I want to challenge you to do different topics
So let's say tomorrow morning you want to do a topic on fast foods come up with as many words as you possibly can that has to do with fast-food fries hamburger hotdog ketchup mustard right and just keep going for again 60 seconds then the next day do another topic it could be on a topic of your favorite TV show like suits
So every single day if you pick a different topic you can't allow yourself your brain to specifically memorize certain words instead you're training your brain to retrieve retrieve that's content in order for you to express it out loud and then again we are increasing our verbal fluency
Comment below and let me know what your average was again there is no scientifically proven standard to this verbal fluency test of course this is not conducted by a scientist so please take this with a grain of salt but that being said I really like to know what your score was and where you plan to go from here
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