Everyone knows the fact that it is much easier to live with a sense of humor. It promotes mental health, allows you to easily solve even the most difficult problems, helps to assert yourself and improve relationships with people around you. Unfortunately, the sense of humor is not inherited through genes. But in no case do not despair, it can be educated and developed. And the sooner you start doing it, the better.
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, you need to remember that there are two types of sense of humor: directed inward and directed outward. The first is a person's ability to find funny moments in everyday life, and sometimes in difficult situations, the ability to laugh at himself. The second is the ability to joke. When people begin to develop a sense of humor, they usually try to learn how to joke. This is not true, because one cannot do without the ability to see the positive in any situation and the ability to laugh at oneself.
Step 2
Love life and yourself first. You can learn this on your own, and if it doesn't work out, then from a competent teacher. You should not take people with extensive life experience as teachers. A five-year-old who can laugh for no apparent reason is best suited for this role.
Step 3
Then stop taking yourself too seriously, and don't be afraid to be funny. All of your past experiences may oppose this, but try to overcome yourself. Try to find funny features in yourself, ask your relatives and friends, in no case do not be offended by truthful answers.
Step 4
Look at yourself from the outside and laugh kindly. Think about all the awkward situations you have experienced. Once you master this skill, you can try laughing at others and at your mistakes. This skill will be especially useful if you make a bad joke on another person and, by laughing at your failure, you defuse the situation.
Step 5
In addition to learning to laugh at any situation, other parameters are also important for the development of a sense of humor, for example, erudition, a large vocabulary, the ability to express one's thoughts clearly and clearly, associative thinking, acting, and so on.
Step 6
The easiest way to make fun of yourself or others is through irony. This is a technique by which the object of your humor is given a characteristic opposite to the real one. For example, to a lazy person, you can say: "Yes, you also work hard!".
Step 7
Vocabulary is extremely important as many humorous tricks involve wordplay. For example, the use of homonyms (words that are similar in spelling and pronunciation, but different in meaning).
Step 8
Erudition allows a person to move away from ordinary jokes and make his humor more refined and sophisticated. Many techniques are based on generalizations and associations, so all of these parameters need to be developed.
Step 9
Quite a few people noticed that despite the fact that the joke is actually very funny, none of the friends laughed. And the fact is that you still need to be able to present jokes in a certain way. The development of acting skills, your speech will allow you to make even the most serious audience laugh.
