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SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
---Eleanor Roosevelt (from Day #8)

Your day-to-day guide, Self-Motivation, Optimism, Encouragement Rules! (SMOERs): Daily Reminders for Outstanding Living, compiled by Richard L. Weaver II, Ph.D. There are 365 daily rules and over 1600 quotations for the boost you need to brighten your day - every day - and uplift your spirits. Available Spring 2009.

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Thursday’s essay, “How do you develop a sense of humor?” is an essay that first discusses the benefits and then offers three clear, specific, and realistic methods that will help everyone develop his or her sense of humor.

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How do you develop a sense of humor?
by Richard L. Weaver II

Excerpt:
Reading funny things can help you. If you collect and read books on humor, you gain information, true, but it can serve an additional function as well.. The book, How to be funny on purpose: Creating and consuming humor, by Edgar E. Willis, for example, gives specific instructions on how to construct jokes and humorous material. Once you are aware of how jokes are constructed, you will become a more knowledgeable consumer. You will know what makes certain jokes work and others fail. You will know, too, the circumstances when jokes should be told and when they should not.

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