humor
we don’t need to take ourselves so seriously in order to grapple with serious things.
from Humour, Seriously: Why Humour Is A Superpower At Work And In Life by Jennifer Aaker
humor
Remember, the bar for humour in the business world is extremely low. The goal isn’t to elicit raucous, rolling-on-the-floor laughter; it’s simply to create a moment of connection. Often, all it takes is a mindset of levity to transform a relationship or moment.
Jennifer Aaker • Humour, Seriously: Why Humour Is A Superpower At Work And In Life
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
There’s also a great anecdote from Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman, where he talks about how physics used to delight him when he used to play with it, but then it started to disgust him when he got burdened by this idea that he was obligated to advance the future of science. That he was supposed to be doing “important” work.
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visakan veerasamy • Article
Their laughter seems to free up their compassion and liberate them from narcissistic worry about themselves.