Humour, Seriously: Why Humour Is A Superpower At Work And In Life

Words matter little; behavior and attitude are what count. A sense of humour is part of what makes us human. It’s a deeply connecting and empowering thing. Deploying it doesn’t make light of serious things, it means you’re able to move forward, in spite of those serious things.

Having a sense of humour—both the ability to generate humour and to appreciate it—has repeatedly been found to correlate with measures of intelligence.