The ability to laugh and make others laugh can help you succeed in life. Outlined below I will talk about a few reasons having a sense of humor will promote you and make your life easier.
First of all, having a sense of humor is one of the most important things to keeping a good attitude in life and increasing your happiness. Humor can help you love life more by helping you to appreciate the little things in life. Maybe it’s a funny joke or an unintended pun that puts a smile on your face. If you can learn to appreciate the “free” things in life, you are going to be much better off.
Second, having a sense of humor can and will help you in negotiating to get things you want. This could be in business or in your personal life. Just think of the last couple sales pitches your heard or just casual conversation you had when someone was trying to get you to do or buy something. What was your impression of them? Were they funny without being corny? If so, did this not make you like them more and make you more likely to “do business” with them? We’re not saying it works every time, but when genuine it can really go a long way.
Next, when you are hilarious, it can also most often increase ones confidence in themselves. This confidence in turn usually causes you to be more comfortable and people will desire to be around you more often. Having a sense of humor and also having confidence at the same time works like a magnet when attracting the opposite sex or just building plain friendship.
In honor of all this humor talk, I thought I’d share with you a quick funny story:
A child asked a movie theatre owner: “Madam, how much is it for the price of admission?” A prompt reply of $10 bucks was given. The child then said, “Ma’am, I only have six dollars. Please let me in and I’ll only use one eye to watch the show.” The theatre owner thought for a second and then said based on that response she would kindly let the child in. As you can see, having a sense of humor and the confidence to share it leads to all kinds of benefits in life.
One last fast story before I let you go. There was once an boring shy male tour guide. He was forever trouble with the idea of trying to tell jokes and be funny while leading the various tours. This caused him to be stressed out all the time. Never having met this man, one day one of the unsuspecting passengers thought they may be funny to tell him a joke. Not having a sense of humor and also shy at the same time, all the tour guide could muster was an awkward looking facial expression when the joke was complete. Upon viewing the man’s reaction, the passenger became pretty embarrassed and it really set the mood for the rest of the day. Are there any lessons can we take from this? Not all people are natural comedians, however, everyone should be able to laugh. Being a bore is bad. Laughing is great. Which type of person do you want to be?
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