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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
Humor helps you see the familiar from a surprising new perspective.
It reminds you that there is no grand truth.
Any belief can be up-ended.
Every belief can be mocked.
Nobody knows anything.
See?
Laughing is subversive.
It reminds you that there is no grand truth.
Any belief can be up-ended.
Every belief can be mocked.
Nobody knows anything.
See?
Laughing is subversive.
Derek Sivers • Here’s how to live: Laugh at life. | Derek Sivers
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. 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
How effective is humor as a leadership tool? Being funny is one of the ultimate weapons a person can have in human society. It might even compete with being really good-looking.