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Humour, Seriously: Why Humour Is A Superpower At Work And In Life
A vital ingredient of the contemplative life is a sense of humour. Humour begins with oneself, as we learn to laugh at ourself and our over-seriousness.
Richard Rudd • The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
Viktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
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.
John Cleese • "Creativity in Management"
First you need a sense of humor, which is based on an understanding as to how things work.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
“Mutual playfulness, in-group feeling and positive emotional tone—not comedy—mark the social settings of most naturally occurring laughter,” Provine concluded. Laughter is powerful, he wrote, because it is contagious, “immediate and involuntary, involving the most direct communication possible between people: Brain to brain.”19
Charles Duhigg • Supercommunicators
the ability to take your work very seriously without taking yourself that seriously is a lowkey superpower