A sense of humor is a fairly compelling element of success, for example, during a conversation. It also has a positive effect on a person’s ability to self-actualize. And although by inheritance, unfortunately, this skill is not transmitted, it is possible to develop it in oneself.
Instruction manual
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To master a sense of humor, first of all, you need to learn to joke with yourself and find even in the most negative situations something with which you can laugh with optimism. So try to stop taking yourself too seriously. In addition, more often give people around you a smile and laugh.
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Do not be afraid of situations when you look funny. Remember the incidental situations from your life and try to look at how it looked from the outside, and, when the opportunity arises, laugh at these moments with your household, friends or colleagues. As a rule, such self-irony is not only well accepted by others, but also helps to gain confidence in one's own abilities and does not seem to be a person with too high self-esteem.
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Try to joke as often as possible and do not be afraid that your joke will not be entirely successful, since, first of all, you need to practice this. If you just reflect on whether you manage to make a joke or not, most likely you will expect failure from excitement.
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Do not lose sight of the fact that for a humorous assessment of something, you need to develop wit, erudition and acting skills. Vocabulary is also extremely important, which you can expand if you read as much as possible. Develop also the ability to speak spontaneously. To do this, try at least a few minutes every day to continuously say everything that comes to your mind. Since at first it may seem too complicated, you can try to go for a walk, for example, to a park and describe in detail as much as possible everything that you see around you, for example, for two minutes.
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Learn to think in an associative way, as it is a direct road to wit. You can start developing this skill in yourself by choosing any non-inspired object and try to come up with as many associations as possible based on its shape, size, color and other external characteristics in a short time. When you learn to quickly come up with comparisons to any thing, you can begin your associative experiments with descriptions of people.