The Skill of Humor | Andrew Tarvin | TEDxTAMU - Summary

Summary

The summary could be:

The speaker is a former engineer who became a humorist and teaches people how to use humor in their work and life. He shares his personal journey of learning humor from improv, stand-up and sketch comedy, and gives examples of how humor can help with communication, connection and creativity. He also talks about his grandmother who texts him funny comments on Facebook, and encourages the audience to adopt a WTF (wow that's fun) mindset.

Facts

Hi, this is Copilot. I'm here to help you extract the key facts out of this text. Don't worry, I won't include opinions. Here are some facts I found:

1. The speaker is a former IT project manager who teaches people about the value of humor.
2. The speaker's grandmother sent him her first text message when she was 78 years old and later used WTF to mean "Wow that's fun".
3. The speaker learned the skill of humor through practice and repetition in improv comedy, stand-up comedy, and sketch comedy.
4. The speaker shares his point of view on topics such as mint chocolate, math pickup lines, and human error messages.
5. The speaker explains how humor can help people to listen, learn, communicate, connect, and have fun at work and in life.
6. The speaker says that humor is a choice and anyone can learn to be funnier by using the mindset of "yes and" and exploring their perspective.
7. The speaker's grandmother comments on his Facebook posts and sometimes trolls him with her responses.