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  • The Humor Habit

  • Rewire Your Brain to Stress Less, Laugh More, and Achieve More'er
  • By: Paul Osincup
  • Narrated by: Paul Osincup
  • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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The Humor Habit

By: Paul Osincup
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In The Humor Habit, veteran speaker, corporate trainer, and comedian Paul Osincup delivers a hilarious and effective new take on how to make yourself and your team more productive and resilient by focusing on the funny side of work and life. In the book, you'll learn why humor isn't an in-born quality you're either born with or without. Instead, it's a habit you can develop over time.

You'll find 100 ways to have more fun at work, methods to improve your resilience in dealing with adversity, and an explanation of the author's "LAFTER" model that shows you how to leverage levity at work.

You'll also discover:

- The latest insights from contemporary positive psychology combined with timeless comedic techniques that enhance your wellbeing.

- Strategies to help you battle "chronic seriousness," a condition affecting virtually every professional in the working world.

- Ways to boost your team members' brainpower and productivity using humor.

Perfect for managers, executives, team leads, directors, and other business leaders, The Humor Habit is the practical, hands-on guide to improved productivity that's actually fun to listen to—and even more fun to implement.

©2024 Paul Osincup (P)2024 Ascent Audio
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Humor as a Habit

It had never occurred to me that humor is a habit and needs to be used often and regularly to be a positive part of life. Thank you for an entertaining and useful tool that I could have used forty years ago.

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We need to add more fun to our work and lives!

I think the name of the first chapter: “Combatting Chronic Seriousness” really set the stage for this romp of a nonfiction book. We are all suffering from chronic seriousness, and something needs to be done about it. When I started listening to the book, It brought to mind, when a woman at work couldn’t stand that I was laughing so much – I think she was just a stick in the mud… anyways, we take work too seriously, and if we don’t ease up, our stress destroys us.
Humor is just like any other thing you get better at, you practice it, and you’ll improve over time.

Growth mindset required!

The book has many exercises that you can do, to make many normal things more funny. Some if it revolves around tricking your social media newsfeeds to give you more funny stuff to see.
There are tons of suggestions, including the section where he suggests 101 things you can do to make work more fun.
the book is full of lots of great material that you can life, and alter for your specific needs.
He even suggests ways to make some personal, traumatic experiences lighter on you.
Lots of things to laugh at, and learn from - really great book!

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Fun and light read!

It’s so easy to take life too seriously and Paul does an amazing job reminding us and giving ways to incorporate humor into your everyday life. It’s a must read!

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How impactful humor is for overall mental wellbeing.

If you’re someone who already enjoys humor or someone who needs more of it, I highly recommend!

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Packed with great information, practical advice and lots of laughs!

Thoroughly enjoyed this book! It is packed with ways add more humor to your life and workplace. While delivering good information, the author also keeps you laughing and engaged the whole time. As a person who is struggles with chronic seriousness it is so helpful to have ways to keep things light in life.

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Great ideas for levity at work

Great ideas for levity at work. did a great job reading. Good suggestions on formulating jokes.

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I wanted to Like it...

There are a few tidbits that serve as a good reminder to enjoy the humor side of life and not take everything so seriously with work and other life scenarios. Some good tips on how to work on that humor muscle. Other than that, it was a bunch of filler stories that became annoying by Chapter 9. I don't think it was a wise use of my time to listen to this book. The value wasn't quite there.

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I liked the concept

90% of the book is filler content. In other words it’s not of value. There is one chapter with a basic how to on the fundamentals of setting up an unfunny dad joke. Over all, wouldn’t recommend this book. Do a simple YouTube search on how to structure funny jokes.

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