96. Vocabulary

It is vital to amass a large vocabulary. Words are tools. The more words you collect, the more jobs you can do. For the purposes of generating wealth, the greater your business vocabulary, the greater your earning potential. Apart from the clinical, intellectual knowledge of the meaning of your words, it is important that you learn to feel the emotional and physical import of the words that you acquire. Average vocabularies are in the 9,000 word range and this is more than adequate for most purposes (e.g a working knowledge of a foreign language). William Shakespeare is said to have had 30,000. The more words you can acquire, the finer the distinctions you can make. Vocabulary then is a gateway to raising your I.Q.