Everyone knows the fact that it’s much easier to live with a sense of humor. It promotes mental health, makes it easy to solve even the most complex problems, helps to assert oneself and improve relationships with people around. Unfortunately, a sense of humor is not inherited through genes. But in no case do not despair, it can be brought up and developed. And the sooner you start doing it, the better.
Instruction manual
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First of all, you need to remember that a sense of humor can be of two types: directed inward and outward. The first is the ability of a person to find funny moments in everyday life, and sometimes in difficult situations, the ability to laugh at himself. The second is the ability to joke. Starting to develop a sense of humor, people usually try to learn how to joke. This is not true, because one cannot do without the ability to see positive in any situation and the ability to laugh at oneself.
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First love life and yourself. You can learn this on your own, and if it does not work out, then from a competent teacher. You should not take people with great life experience as teachers. A five-year-old child who can laugh for no apparent reason is best suited for this role.
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Then stop taking yourself too seriously, don't be afraid to be funny. All of your past experiences can counteract this, but try to overcome yourself. Try to find funny features in yourself, ask relatives and friends, in no case be offended by the truthful answers.
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Look at yourself from the outside and laugh kindly. Remember all those embarrassing situations that you have fallen into. As soon as you master this skill, you can try to laugh at others and about your mistakes. This skill will be especially useful if you joke unsuccessfully with another person and, laughing at your failure, you defuse the situation.
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In addition to learning to laugh at any situation, other parameters are important for developing a sense of humor, for example, erudition, a large vocabulary, the ability to clearly and clearly express one’s thoughts, associative thinking, acting skills and so on.
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The easiest way to make fun of yourself or others is irony. This is a technique by which the object of your humor is given a characteristic opposite to the present. For example, you can say to a lazy person: "Yes, you are also working hard!".
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Vocabulary is extremely important, since many humorous tricks are associated with the game of words. For example, the use of homonyms (words similar in spelling and pronunciation, but different in meaning).
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Erudition allows a person to move away from ordinary jokes and make his humor more refined and sophisticated. Many techniques are based on generalizations and associations, so all these parameters need to be developed.
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Quite a few people noticed that despite the fact that the joke is actually very funny, none of the friends laughed. But the fact is that jokes still need to be able to present in a certain way. The development of acting skills, your speech will allow you to make even the most serious audience laugh.