tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697041069822813301.post2700411678998134257..comments2023-04-07T04:36:21.582-05:00Comments on Musing Aloud: Defeating Negative HumorAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02343632915029739024noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697041069822813301.post-15294089475099986562011-06-20T23:56:11.904-05:002011-06-20T23:56:11.904-05:00Humor, even and especially ribbing others and self...Humor, even and especially ribbing others and self-deprecating, is crucial to maintaining a positive sense of life. It's crucial value being able to use one's mind conceptually in a day-to-day, very regular manner, both personally, such as by oneself, and socially. It's especially crucial in dealing with and enjoying peoples' company, especially those with bad ideas who have good sense of life aspects.<br /><br />It's like eating and drinking water, but for the mind. It helps to start conversation with co-workers and other people you have just a little familiarity with. Debating serious ideas is very very draining and requires a level of maturity that people don't have today. So exercising one's mind in another manner is crucial.<br /><br />It also involves body language, such as tone of voice and facial expression, a certain physicality that no other activity can match.<br /><br />Above all, humor is a way to keep one's mind sharp regularly. It's very immediate, and helps one bide time to build longer term values and ideas. It's creative, making things up completely or basing a joke on a work-related context or some shared experience.<br /><br />The big thing to keep in mind that the goal of regular humor is to keep one's mind sharp and enjoy peoples' company by finding common bonds or some minor aspect of them to riff, hopefully in a playful way, but even if it is crude, it's better than over-cautiously shutting one's mind off by not allowing it to process material. Finishing a joke is also a start and finish thing. It's good to regularly, day-to-day have some conceptual activity that you can complete very often. That satisfaction of a punch line is important; it's not enough to take weeks and months on completing bigger tasks, or to make good. Talking (e.g., humor) is enormously more conceptual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com