Average people in the world use less than 10 percent of theirs brains. According to the Brian Institute at Stanford University, average people use their potential closer to 2 percent.
Word knowledge is directly linked to intelligence and accomplishment. There are more than 600,000 words in the English language. The average person uses only about 1,200 of these words in the daily conversation. About 85 percent of all English usage is covered by 2,000 words and fully 95 percent of newspaper, magazines, radio, and television use about 4,000 out of the 600,000 words available.
There is a direct relationship between your knowledge and use of words and your income, and between word usage and intelligence. Each word is actually a mental construct. It represent a thought. The more words you know and can use, the more complex and accurate thoughts you can think. People with extensive vocabularies are capable of higher level functioning, and are far more creative and insightful than those with limited word knowledge. People with limited vocabularies have limited thinking abilities as well.
So, how many words do you know?
