Is Sense of Humour Possible to Develop?

What is sense of humour: an inborn talent or a skill possible to acquire? Let's reflect on the issue a little bit and find out if you still have a chance to become a heart and soul of any company.

Good sense of humour is a very acquirable skill, no worries. Wit is a way of attracting attention. Have you ever seen witty fellows who silently sit in the corner without even trying to express their outstanding skills? Most likely, you haven't. Wanna know why? Because the talent of being witty itself is a means to be cheeky and offhanded in spite of a person's inner constraint and shyness. Nobody ever thinks that these funny chaps are sometimes shy and even have problems with their self-esteem deep down inside. Wit in this case is nothing more than compensation of this inner flaw. If you happen to find yourself face-to-face with a person who's very witty in public, you will be surprised at the change in this person. It is very possible that you will face a shy little child instead of a grown-up self-sufficient person. And it vividly illustrates the fact that ability to joke (sense of humour) isn't what you absorb with your mother's milk when you're still unable to talk not to mention joking, it's just a skill which you can master, just as well as say knitting stockings or speaking Spanish.

It means that even if you're considered a total incurable bore at work, if your family try really hard not to fall asleep when talking to you (they won't tell you anything, they're your closest ones after all!), your chances of becoming that funny chap are quite noticeable. Needless to say that you'll easily succeed if you want simply to improve your joking skills.

Let's start your great change anyway. If you try to put down or just analyse your associates' jokes (the ones that impress the audience with their good sense of humour that is), you'll immediately notice that all these jokes have one thing in common i.e. all of them criticize something or somebody, the subject of their critique isn't that essential, what important is this critique.

Indeed, in order to play 'successful' jokes, you should treat things and people surrounding you ironically. Forget about your down-to-earthiness, sentimentality, take off your pink glasses and toss them down the cruel world's drain. Take a critical look around.

There are so many things to scoff at indeed – your colleague's new hairundo, your boss's idiotic tie, piles of his secretary's makeup that will never flake, no matter how she may try to remove them... However, discussing those things aloud (not to mention mocking about them) may be harmful for your health, especially now that you're not sure if the joke(s) may succeed or not. That's why don't rush into bombing your surroundings with your jokes, take one step at a time. Fundamental steps towards your goal of developing great sense of humour are easily findable in other sections of our website.