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    The document discusses the importance and benefits of humor in communication. It makes three key points: 1) Humor puts people in a good mood, reduces worries, and enhances happiness. Laughter is good for physical and mental health as it minimizes stress. 2) Humor can be an effective communication strategy, like how Shakespeare used it in his plays to intensify emotions. It can spice up lectures or conversations and make them more engaging. 3) Developing a sense of humor has benefits like enhancing health, easing social tensions, and making people more successful in personal and business transactions. Telling humorous stories also helps information sink in more easily.

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    Significance of

    ENHANCING SOFT SKILLS Humour in


    Communication

    AND PERSONALITY
    T. Ravichandran
    Lesson
    26

    Week 6 Unit 1
    OF THE LAST LESSON

    In the last lesson, you checked your score for 20 commonly
    confused words and learnt about the correct usage for 30 more
    words.

     To improve your English further, I gave you two web-links:

    http://www.dailywritingtips.com/

    https://www.englishpractice.com/topics/common-mistakes/

    Dr. T. Ravichandran, Professor, HSS Department, IIT Kanpur, India 2


    WHY HUMOUR?!
     To humour is to put someone in a good mood either by telling
    jokes or doing something funny.
     When you are humourous, you provoke laughter and make
    everybody around you relax.
     It’simportant to be humourous in life as it minimises worries
    and enhances happiness.
     Laughter is the best medicine! People who learn how to laugh
    at themselves and unforeseen circumstances live longer, and in
    a cheerful manner.
     In life, we tend to forget sad moments and cherish happy
    occasions.
     We will happily remember those people who made us laugh!

    Dr. T. Ravichandran, Professor, HSS Department, IIT Kanpur, India


    3
    HUMOUR AS A COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
     Humour can be used as a very effective communication strategy.
     Great playwrights like Shakespeare used appropriate humour to
    intensify the emotional content of their plays.
     In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, humour is used in incongruous situations like
    the time when the ghost appears or when the grave diggers dig the
    grave for the innocent Ophelia.
     When humour is mixed at horrifying and tragic moments, it makes the
    pain bearable. (But be serious, when you have to be serious!)
     Similarly,
    jokes and humorous anecdotes can break monotony in
    communication.
     Dry lectures can be spiced up by use of relevant humour.
    I always remember my grammar teacher who made the classes
    interesting by sprinkling them with humour.
    Dr. T. Ravichandran, Professor, HSS Department, IIT Kanpur, India
    4
    LEVELS OF HUMOUR
     Humour can be used at various levels.
     At a simple level, SMILE itself can reduce pressure.
     SMILE: It improves your face value!
     “A smile is the shortest distance between two people.” ~ Victor Borge
     Ata higher level of humour is making one laugh to the point of crying!
    Here, humour is good, healthy, effective and positive.
     Ata lower level, passing sarcastic remarks, poking fun at others,
    teasing others, laughing at others’ disability, joking on others’
    physique, race, caste, religion or anything personal—are all negative,
    and should be carefully avoided.
     While a simple smile can reduce the distance, a sarcastic joke can
    distance a person for ever.

    Dr. T. Ravichandran, Professor, HSS Department, IIT Kanpur, India


    5
    DEVELOPING HUMOUR?

     We need not develop humour as it is something that we are born with!


     The new born child uses smile, laughter to show appreciation, liking,
    comfort, warmth, etc.
     We all have an innate taste for humour.
     But as we grow up, we become morons due to work pressure.
     It’s important to associate with people who are humourous.
     Watching cartoons, comic programmes regularly and sharing interesting
    anecdotes can help in developing humour.
     Laughing before sleeping gives one a peaceful sleep!

    Dr. T. Ravichandran, Professor, HSS Department, IIT Kanpur, India


    6
    BENEFITS OF HUMOUR
    Humour keeps you healthy:
     When you laugh, you breathe freely and easily. Thus it enhances
    respiration. You relax many of your face muscles. It enhances blood
    circulation, suppresses stress and strengthens your immune system.
    Humour eases tension:
     Humour in unusual places, unexpected situations; e. g. in airports
    Humour makes you successful in transactions:
     Creating humour in interviews reveals a light-hearted hidden personality.
     When you make people laugh, you win the transaction (personal as well
    as business)!
    Humour makes you remember things easily/convey a message effectively:
     Humourous stories are seldom forgotten.
    Dr. T. Ravichandran, Professor, HSS Department, IIT Kanpur, India
    7
    THE INDIAN FROG STORY

    American Frog Chinese Frog Indian Frog

    Dr. T. Ravichandran, Professor, HSS Department, IIT Kanpur, India


    8
    Dr. T. Ravichandran, Professor, HSS Department, IIT Kanpur, India 9
    FOR FURTHER REFERENCE. . .

    https://humorproject.com/

    Dr. T. Ravichandran, Professor, HSS Department, IIT Kanpur, India 10

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