A sense of humor, contrary to popular belief, can be developed quickly enough if you constantly improve yourself and do not get hung up on the same books and TV shows. After all, humanity at one time had to go from poor jokes in form and content to subtle humor, without which it is almost impossible to survive in the modern world.
Instructions
Step 1
To develop your sense of humor, you should, first of all, constantly expand your horizons, to the best of your strength and capabilities. Pay attention: if you have a ritual of reading the same books and printed publications, watching films, TV shows and pages on the Internet of the same direction. Start at least by gathering information about your family's relationships, parenting, work, and your friends' hobbies.
Step 2
Meet on social media not only people who share your hobbies and points of view, but also opponents of your lifestyle. Try not to use general phrases and not invent offensive nicknames for them in conversation with antagonists and in the comments to their posts. Satire should not be with fists, but with brains. Find in your virtual interlocutors those traits that can evoke associations with famous literary characters or movie heroes. This will be enough for the first time.
Step 3
Try to notice the character traits and nuances of behavior in real people, but do not talk about it directly. If in the virtual world it is very easy to hide behind a nickname or even leave the page, then in the real one you can run into a misunderstanding, especially if you barely know this person. Listen to him, try to appreciate his sense of humor first before demonstrating yours. And do not get personal until a warm friendship is established between you. And in this case, the joke should be kind, directed not at physical data or external circumstances, but at the behavior or character of a person.
Step 4
Before you joke, always count to 10 (or at least 5), even if this makes the joke irrelevant. Real humor only becomes more valuable over time - 5 seconds have passed since the appearance of a joke, or 5 centuries.
Step 5
Do not get hung up on the idea that humanity was only interested in humor "below the belt". On the one hand, this is really so, because in this way the oldest ideas about the world in general and man in particular are reflected in jokes. On the other hand, since the Stone Age, humanity has acquired a considerable number of other reasons for jokes (albeit with the same mystical basis). Read the works of V. Propp, M. Bakhtin, O. Freidenberg, A. Panchenko (many texts on the culture of laughter can be found on the Internet) and see how well over the centuries mankind has learned to disguise its craving for the animal code of reproduction, and how to be able to veiled it in a good joke so as to be branded as an intellectual with a deep sense of humor.
