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[Anonymous No.18452448]

What books can help me increase my verbal IQ and improve my abilities at public speaking?

both improvised and scripted

>pic related but in a non-political sense

[Anonymous No.18452456]

>>18452448
>2448
almost

[Anonymous No.18452472]

Public speaking is a skill. You develop skills by practicing them. IQ is an inherent trait. It is not a skill, so you can't develop it by practicing. No book can help you with either of these things. This thread is not literature related.

[Anonymous No.18452479]

>>18452472
>IQ is an inherent trait
verbal IQ is different than just normal IQ

[Anonymous No.18452488]

>>18452448
I really like reading Shakespeare to get a sense of how speeches can be structured, I'm sure any other great playwright can help with that too but I have the most experience with the Bard.

[Anonymous No.18452490]

>>18452448
Seneca's Letters

[Anonymous No.18452499]

>>18452479
Tell that to Ashkenazis

[Anonymous No.18452505]

>>18452499
i already just did that

[Anonymous No.18452558]

>>18452479
>different than
I'm not trying to suck my own dick too hard here, but I am someone with an exceptionally high verbal IQ. As a kid I was the stereotypical "little professor." When I let myself speak naturally, my brain reaches for words the vast majority of even otherwise intelligent people have never heard before. I have done precisely nothing to develop what amounts to a completely subconscious ability to use advanced vocabulary. I don't see any way by which someone without my innate ability to use language could ever develop it. As someone with an extremely high verbal IQ, I couldn't tell you how to even begin to match my natural ability with language. You can learn and memorize by rote definitions if you want to, and you might even get away with it. But somebody with a genuinely high IQ will be able to intuit your clumsiness – and you will be clumsy with your use of words outside your natural vocabulary. I don't know how to quantify this, but I always just know.

[Anonymous No.18452574]

>>18452558
>What are you saying? I don't understand. Fuck you. I will now go have big sex and reproduce.

[Anonymous No.18452600]

>>18452558

[Anonymous No.18452605]

>>18452448
>I want to be more like goebbels
>but without the politics!
Unironically kys

[Anonymous No.18452683]

>>18452558
you dont have to try to suck your own dick, your writing shows that you are already deep throating yourself

[Anonymous No.18452694]

>>18452605
>I want to be more like goebbels
>but without provoking leftist seethe in my thread

[Anonymous No.18452752]

>>18452683
What I'm actually doing is stating facts without demurring or showing the kind of self-deprecation normally expected of me when I deal with retards. Just so you know.

[Anonymous No.18453105]

>>18452448
Verbal IQ & emotional IQ are both fake but if you want to fatten your vocabulary just read more, look at old dictionaries (Samuel Johnson's, for example). Beneficial also is focusing on subjects deeply instead of hopping around too much.

[Anonymous No.18453342]

>>18452558
based post.

[Anonymous No.18454049]

Goebbels was a german philologist who studied for a long while and read A LOT.
You can do the same.

Learn from his speeches the way latin rhetoric students would learn from Cicero.

[Anonymous No.18454211]

>>18452558
What does this post even say? I cannot comprehend the words he is using.

[Anonymous No.18454221]

>>18452558
and yet you write like an imbecile

[Anonymous No.18454229]

>>18452448
Join Toastmasters International, that is pretty much their purpose for existing.

[Anonymous No.18454328]

>>18452456
baste

[Anonymous No.18454499]

>>18452558