Here’s how to live: Laugh at life. | Derek Sivers
Here’s how to live: Laugh at life.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Words matter little; behavior and attitude are what count. A sense of humour is part of what makes us human. It’s a deeply connecting and empowering thing. Deploying it doesn’t make light of serious things, it means you’re able to move forward, in spite of those serious things.
Jennifer Aaker • Humour, Seriously: Why Humour Is A Superpower At Work And In Life
John Cleese: “Now I suggest to you that a group of us could be sitting around after dinner, discussing matters that were extremely serious like the education of our children, or our marriages, or the meaning of life, and we could be laughing, and that would not make what we were discussing one bit less serious. Solemnity, on the other hand, I hones... See more
visakan veerasamy • Article
First of all I express sincerity. There’s also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy because of it. They need to smile and realize how ridiculous everything is. A race without a sense of humor is in bad shape. A race needs clowns. In earlier
... See moreJohn F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Humor is an essential part of spontaneity, an essential part of playfulness, an essential part of the creativity that we need to solve problems, no matter how ‘serious' they may be.
JamesClear.com • "Creativity in Management"
Humour The wise take the business of laughing at themselves seriously. They hedge their pronouncements and are sceptical in their conclusions. Their certainties are not as brittle as those of others.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Humor can be an amazing tool for delivering an honest message in a good-natured way. A recent study even found that “sense of humor” was the phrase most frequently used to describe the most effective leaders.2
Sheryl Sandberg • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
First you need a sense of humor, which is based on an understanding as to how things work.