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13. Make ’Em Laugh: How to Use Humor as a Secret Weapon in Your Communication
Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques
Storytelling and Humor
✨Key takeaways:
- Humor and storytelling share commonalities like grabbing attention and defying expectations.
- Effective stories and humor engage the audience and transform both the storyteller and the listener.
- Humor comes from truth, not invention.
Similarities between good storytelling and humor:
- Goal-oriented: Stories have a purpose, and humor should uplift or move something forward.
- Attention-grabbing: Both storytelling and humor defy expectations and are neurologically wired to grab our attention.
- Engaging and transformative: Both connect storyteller/joke teller and audience, leaving both transformed.
- Truth-based: Humor originates from truth and doesn't require inventing something new.
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