As practice shows, people without sense of humour have the psychological problems in communication caused by various reasons.
Why they do not understand humour?
Roots of emergence of such problem (and it is a problem) can go to the childhood and youth. Such people, as a rule, are emotionally clamped, are not sociable and extremely sensitive. They very much are afraid to look funny and to become a subject of general derision.
However experts claim that everything is not so bad, and the sense of humour can be developed.
Special exercises for development of sense of humour
- All of them, as a rule, have game character, and among the most effective all well familiar game in association usually is called. For this purpose choose any word and write down those concepts and names of objects which, are in your opinion connected with it whatever ridiculous they seemed.
- Do not hesitate to use more often in the speech aphorisms, proverbs, sayings. The main thing – that it was appropriate.
- The sense of humour can be gained if in the company of friends or colleagues to remember and tell interesting true-life stories; it – too exercises which, perhaps, at first will also not cause a Homeric laughter of attendees but the you will be more often them to use, rather achieve result.
- Do not you tell jokes because you are not able? Then write down the most pleasant, several times read them, understand that here ridiculous, and, as required, tell. In your solution of a question how to develop sense of humour, exercises of this sort will be quite appropriate.
The one who is amicable with laughter and cheerful stories, knows how sometimes there is a wish to feel a thin side of irony or internal implication which quite often are in a comic statement. Understanding how to improve sense of humour, its development exercises will give. And here visits or viewing comic concerts, reading collections of jokes and cheerful true-life stories and also direct communication with your friends among which surely there will be the one who is considered by "soul of the company" and the skillful story-teller of cheerful stories will help.
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