A sense of humor, contrary to popular belief, can be developed quite quickly if you constantly improve yourself and don’t get hung up on the same books and TV shows. After all, humanity at one time had to go from a miserable form and content of jokes to subtle humor, without which it is almost impossible to survive in the modern world.
Instruction manual
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To develop your sense of humor, you should, first of all, constantly expand your horizons, as far as possible. Please note: have you ever had the ritual of reading the same books and prints, watching movies, TV shows and Internet pages of the same orientation. Start at least by collecting information regarding relationships in your family, parenting, work, hobbies of friends.
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Meet on social networks not only with people who share your hobbies and point of view, but also with opponents of your lifestyle. Try not to use common phrases or come up with insulting nicknames in the conversation with the antagonists and in the comments on their posts. Satire should not be with fists, but with brains. Find traits that can cause associations with famous literary characters or movie heroes in your virtual interlocutors. This for the first time will be quite enough.
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Try to notice the character traits and nuances of behavior in real people, but don’t talk about it directly. If in the virtual world it is very simple to hide behind a nickname or even leave the page, then in the real world you can come across a misunderstanding, especially if you are barely familiar with this person. Listen to him, try to evaluate his sense of humor first, before showing your own. And do not get personal until a warm friendship is established between you. And in this case, the joke should be good, aimed not at physical data or external circumstances, but at a person’s behavior or character.
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Before joking, always count to 10 (or at least 5), even if the joke is no longer relevant. Real humor is only more valuable with time - 5 seconds have passed since the appearance of a joke or 5 centuries.
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Do not get hung up on the idea that humanity was interested and only interested in “below the belt” humor. On the one hand, this is indeed so, because thereby jokes reflect the most ancient ideas about the world in general and man in particular. On the other hand, mankind since the Stone Age has acquired a considerable number of other reasons for jokes (although having the same mystical basis). Read the works of V. Propp, M. Bakhtin, O. Freidenberg, A. Panchenko (many texts on laughter culture can be found on the Internet) and see how well over the centuries mankind has learned to mask its craving for animal breeding code, and how to manage veil her in a good joke so as to be considered an intellectual with a deep sense of humor.