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Tips For Developing Your Sense of Humor

The document provides tips for developing a sense of humor, including learning not to take yourself too seriously, embracing imperfections and choosing to laugh whenever possible. Specific tips include laughing at yourself by sharing embarrassing moments, attempting to find humor in difficult situations, surrounding yourself with reminders to lighten up, not dwelling on negatives and finding ways to laugh every day. Developing humor can help overcome challenges, enhance life, connect with others and think more creatively.

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Tips For Developing Your Sense of Humor

The document provides tips for developing a sense of humor, including learning not to take yourself too seriously, embracing imperfections and choosing to laugh whenever possible. Specific tips include laughing at yourself by sharing embarrassing moments, attempting to find humor in difficult situations, surrounding yourself with reminders to lighten up, not dwelling on negatives and finding ways to laugh every day. Developing humor can help overcome challenges, enhance life, connect with others and think more creatively.

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Tips for developing your sense of humor

An essential ingredient for developing your sense of humor is to learn not to


take yourself too seriously and laugh at your own mistakes and foibles. As
much as we’d like to believe otherwise, we all do foolish things from time to
time. Instead of feeling embarrassed or defensive, embrace your
imperfections. While some events in life are clearly sad and not opportunities
for laughter, most don’t carry an overwhelming sense of either
sadness or delight. They fall into the gray zone of ordinary life—giving you the
choice to laugh or not. So, choose to laugh whenever you can.

How to develop your sense of humor

Laugh at yourself. Share your embarrassing moments. The best way to take


yourself less seriously is to talk about times when you took
yourself too seriously.

Attempt to laugh at situations rather than bemoan them. Look for the


humor in a bad situation, and uncover the irony and absurdity of life. When
something negative happens, try to make it a humorous anecdote that will
make others laugh.

Surround yourself with reminders to lighten up. Keep a toy on your desk


or in your car. Put up a funny poster in your office. Choose a computer
screensaver that makes you laugh. Frame photos of you and your family or
friends having fun.

Remember funny things that happen. If something amusing happens or you


hear a joke or funny story you really like, write it down or tell it to someone to
help you remember it.

Don’t dwell on the negative. Try to avoid negative people and don’t dwell on
news stories, entertainment, or conversations that make you sad or unhappy.
Many things in life are beyond your control—particularly the behavior of other
people. While you might view carrying the weight of the world on your
shoulders as admirable, in the long run it’s unrealistic and unhealthy.

Find your inner child. Pay attention to children and try to emulate them—
after all, they are the experts on playing, taking life lightly, and laughing at
ordinary things.

Deal with stress. Stress can be a major impediment to humor and laughter,


so it’s important to keep your stress levels in check. One great technique to
relieve stress in the moment is to draw upon a favorite memory that always
makes you smile—something your kids did, for example, or something funny a
friend told you.
Don’t go a day without laughing. Think of it like exercise or breakfast and
make a conscious effort to find something each day that makes you laugh. Set
aside 10 to 15 minutes and do something that amuses you. The more you get
used to laughing each day, the less effort you’ll have to make.

Using humor to overcome challenges and enhance your life


The ability to laugh, play, and have fun not only makes life more enjoyable but
also helps you solve problems, connect with others, and think more creatively.
People who incorporate humor and play into their daily lives find that it renews
them and all of their relationships.

Life brings challenges that can either get the best of you or become playthings
for your imagination. When you “become the problem” and take yourself too
seriously, it can be hard to think outside the box and find new solutions. But
when you play with the problem, you can often transform it into an opportunity
for creative learning.

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