The Skill of Humor | Andrew Tarvin | TEDxTAMU - Summary

Summary

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The speaker is a humor engineer who teaches people how to use humor to be more productive, less stressed and happier at work and in life. He shares his own journey of learning humor as a skill, and gives examples of how humor can help people connect, communicate and cope with challenges. He also shows how humor can be created by sharing one's point of view, exploring and heightening it, using a yes-and mindset, and practicing and performing it. He ends by encouraging the audience to choose humor and think "WTF - Wow, that's fun."

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1. The speaker's grandmother sent her first text at 78 years old.
2. The speaker left a corporate job at Procter and Gamble to teach about humor.
3. Humor increases long-term memory retention and aids in learning.
4. The speaker has worked with over 35,000 people at more than 250 organizations.
5. Humor improves group cohesiveness and reduces status differentials.
6. The speaker is an engineer with a degree in computer science from Ohio State University.
7. The speaker started doing comedy in college with an improv group.
8. The speaker has performed in all 50 states and 18 countries.
9. Job satisfaction and managing stress are the individual's responsibility.
10. The speaker's grandmother now comments on every one of his Facebook status updates.

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