"Let's face it, from the earliest times, the favored class of people has always been the educated class. You can reach the top! We may not all be brilliant enough to be the top in our fields, but we can certainly be in the top 5%–including you. He worked himself into the top 45% and became a vice president of the company. In a "Reader's Digest" article titled "Words Can Work Wonders for You", author Blake Clark told a fascinating story of a salesman in his 50s who scored in the bottom 5% of a standardized vocabulary test. In virtually every case, vocabulary correlated with executive level and income. "Without a single exception, those who had scored highest on the vocabulary test given in college, were in the top income group, while those who had scored the lowest were in the bottom income group."Īnother study by scientist Johnson O'Connor, who gave vocabulary tests to executive and supervisory personnel in 39 large manufacturing companies: But the minute he opens his mouth and begins to speak, he proclaims to the world his level on our social pyramid.Our use of our language is the one thing we can't hide."Įarl Nightingale (one of the greatest self-improvement authors of all time) conducted of a 20-year study of college graduates. " A person may dress in the latest fashion and present a very attractive appearance. Ready to reach the top? Subscribe and receive a new word daily via TXT! Research has shown over and over that a person’s vocabulary level is the best single predictor of occupational success (more info). Not enough people realize that it is our ability to use our language that will determine our place on the social pyramid–and that will also control, to a great extent, the amount of money we will earn during our lives. The adjective slapdash is familiar today describing something done in a hasty, careless, or haphazard manner. The Oxford English Dictionary defines this sense, in part, as "with, or as with, a slap and a dash," perhaps suggesting the notion of an action (such as painting) performed with quick, imprecise movements. "Down I put the notes slap-dash," he wrote. Slapdash editing had an effect on the sales of the magazine.Īn early recorded use of slapdash comes from 17th-century British poet and dramatist John Dryden, who used it as an adverb in his play The Kind Keeper. I hope that people can find room in the work to breathe.Slapdash means "haphazard," "slipshod," or "sloppy." Above all, through Jesture, Jadé’s “gesture” to the world right now, she states: “I just love to share my world with people. Navigating the world through colour, Jadé’s latest paintings also offer a generous outlook on how one of the greatest visionaries of our time can reflect on a period she describes as “laughable in the darkest way possible”. I don’t want to use colour literally, but it’s more of a synaesthesia of sorts.” We are all colours that are constantly fluctuating, we change every day, we change every minute, and it was a wonderful thing to think about in terms of why these paintings feel so different to me all the time, because I am constantly changing, and the colours I am experiencing are constantly changing. I’ve been thinking about a lot of what it means to talk about identity, or question it. “I think we can translate a lot of moods into colour, and see it literally, too. While remaining an extension of her identity, the new works evoke the wider web of political and social complexities, as reflected in their vivid dramatism and knots of colour. The results of her months away from the studio make up Jesture, a title that “encompasses a lot of the absurdity we have all been experiencing”. “Birthday: Deathday” by Jadé Fadojutimi, 2020 Courtesy of the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
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