Humor: An Essential Life Skill

Mark Twain said, “Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.” He’s certainly not wrong. Humor may very well be the great thing.【小题1】

Having a good sense of humor is possibly one of the best things you can do for your physical fitness.【小题2】Besides, it can improve your cardiovascular (心血管的) health.

【小题3】Study has shown that individuals who score highly in humor have higher self-respect, greater self-competence, and perform better in social interaction. They tend to get along well with others and are more often associated with better overall health.

Albert Einstein owed his brilliant mind to having a child-like sense of humor.【小题4】Researchers in Austria discovered that those who have a sense of humor have higher verbal (言语的) and nonverbal intelligence than their less humorous peers, because it takes both cognitive (认知的) and emotional abilities to process and produce humor.

The benefits of humor are so great that universities like Stanford are offering business courses on humor in the workplace.【小题5】Students will be taught how to “better achieve business goals and develop stronger bonds”. It doesn’t stop there, though. Researchers believe humor has the power to actually “make change in the world”.