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Exercises for Enhancing Your WordSmart

The 8 Kinds of Smart are already within each us! It's part of our nature as human beings. However, as you've discovered from your SmartProfile™ not all of the intelligences are equally developed.

As I mentioned in the introduction to the SmartProfile™ Information & Management Center some of your intelligences are strong and highly developed. Others are emerging. While still others are in various states of latency or are simply asleep!

But again, the good news is that any underdeveloped intelligence can be enhanced, improved, and otherwise strengthened. The following set of exercises are designed to help you "awaken" your less developed intelligences and help grow those intelligence areas that need some help.

INSTRUCTIONS

During the coming week experiment with the follow set of exercises. The goal of these exercises is:

1) To help you become more aware of how much WordSmart is part of your everyday life,

2) To increase your comfort level for working with this intelligence, and

3) To help you build your WordSmart capacities.

The exercises are designed to help you understand the WordSmart capacities which are already inside you just waiting to be awakened. Do each exercise once a day.

Enjoy this. It's not a difficult as it may seem, in fact, it's really quite fun!.


EXERCISE 1:

Start a humor journal. Record as many linguistically-based funny items as you can. Listen for witty, clever comments people make. Look for potential puns. Learn a new joke each day and share it!

EXERCISE 2:

Purchase a book of word games. Each day work a different game. Go as far as you can alone, then get others around you involved in figuring it out. Start simple and work increasingly complex games each day.

EXERCISE 3:

Before you go to work, open a dictionary, close your eyes, and randomly point to a word. Learn how to pronounce it and its meaning. During the day use it! Work it into conversations with others. Use it in your thoughts.

EXERCISE 4:

Keep a list of all the idioms you hear or can find, which, if taken literally, would be quite hilarious. Start a list of double-meaning phrases you notice in peoples’ speech or on product labels.

EXERCISE 5:

Listen to the words people use to express themselves. Do the words seem to fit with their personality and style? How would the meaning of their speech change if you changed the tone, pitch, and rhythm of what they are saying?

EXERCISE 6:

Ask a friend to write ten strange topics on ten index cards, fold the cards in half, and tape them shut. When you are on a break or driving to and from work, draw one of the cards out of your pocket and deliver a three minute impromptu speech on that topic


Reflection on the Week of WordSmart Explorations

[Focus your thoughts on the past week and your work
with your WordSmart through the exercises. Type your
reflections in the boxes provided, then click the "print button"
at the bottom of the page too save your work.]

1. As I think back over the week, what stands out in my mind from the WordSmart explorations I’ve been doing?

2. What did I find most interesting about working with WordSmartthis week? What was surprising? What made me laugh? What disturbed me?

3. What new discoveries did I make about myself and my WordSmart potentials this week? What benefits have I experienced from working with WordSmart?

4. What can I do to make WordSmart a regular part of my daily life? How can I use it on the job? At home with my family? In my personal life?

5. My next steps for continuing to work with WordSmart are:

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