Six Humor Skills-Self-mockery

Hello, I'm Wang Gonghou. This is a humorous series. Completely free, pure sharing. I'll sum it up myself.

Hobbes put forward a theory in Leviathan called "Laughter is a sudden sense of glory". The original words are "the emotion of laughter is nothing more than the sense of glory that suddenly arises when you see the weaknesses of others or yourself in the past and suddenly think of your own superiority."

Simply put, when you see others being stupid, embarrassed, humiliated and miserable, you will compare them in your mind. At this time, you will have a superior psychology, and laughter will occur.

There is a saying that we have all heard: our happiness is based on the suffering of others. In fact, the meaning behind it is that others are miserable. Without these problems, we will have a sense of superiority and want to laugh.

For example, you may laugh when we see others slipping on a banana peel. We walked well, but he foolishly stepped on the banana skin and fell badly. Your sense of superiority came into being, and so did your laughter.

For example, when I was in high school, my classmates and I strolled on the playground. I saw a football near the playground, so I rushed over and opened a big foot. As a result, the football was filled with stones, and my feet cried with pain.

Although I didn't say anything, my classmates all laughed. This is my stupid behavior, which aroused their sense of superiority.

For example, some jokes about straight men: A programmer went to a dating site and his friend asked him, "What's the matter? Have you found a girl you like? " The programmer said, "No, but I found a bug on their website."

Why do people think this is funny? Because we won't be as stupid as this straight man. When you feel superior, you laugh.

In our daily life, we can see that people with accents, rustic clothes, stingy people, timid people, dull people, stupid people and so on all have a sense of superiority.

Even if someone tells a joke that others can't understand, you will feel superior and want to laugh after listening to it. Man's fucking vanity!

So how do we use superiority to create humor?

The easiest thing to achieve is actually self-mockery. Whether it's a small party, a public speech or chatting with new friends, we can start with self-mockery, and it's very easy to establish closeness and trust with others.

If spitting is based on the pain of others, then self-mockery is based on the happiness of others.

At the same time, self-mockery is a sign of self-confidence. Contrary to most people, improper boasting and boasting will only make you feel depressed. Only people who are confident and relaxed will find their own shortcomings, accept their own shortcomings and have the courage to speak out.

If you deny, explain or get angry when others criticize and attack you in a teasing, mocking or sarcastic way, it shows that you are weak.

You should join the attackers and attack yourself with others, which will make the attack look ridiculous.

If you laugh at your shortcomings before others attack you, others will be embarrassed to attack you. At least I know it's useless to attack your shortcomings, because you have a strong mentality.

The stronger a person is, the better at self-mockery. Many business leaders also call themselves diaosi to win the favor of others.

Ma Yun often said that when he applied for KFC, 32 people got 365,438+0, but he was not accepted.

Yu of New Oriental laughed at himself and said that Ma Yun got 12 in mathematics, and he was much more than Ma Yun Qiang, and got 14.

Regarding self-mockery, I suggest that you create a "set of people" with a fixed point of spitting, and take this "set of people" as the object of your spitting.

Generally speaking, these spit points are all negative, that is, the shortcomings that do exist in you, such as being short, poor, ugly, fat and stupid. These are also the labels that are most likely to make everyone feel the same.

In short, the general direction is that you are very bad, very bad.

For example, we take obesity as an example. You can say: I am very popular. New friends will take the initiative to care about me and ask me how much you weigh.

You can also experience some details of life, and then exaggerate the slot to an absurd degree.

For example, if you want to describe yourself as short, you can say:

Every time a driver encounters drunk driving, the police think that the car is unmanned.

No matter where I go, it makes no sense for me to meet carefully.

Of course, you can also pass some short stories, and then exaggerate the slot to the absurd degree.

For example, if you want to describe yourself as poor, you can say:

Last month, a thief walked into my house looking for money everywhere, and then we looked for it together.

For example, if you want to describe your bad personality, you can say:

I'm jealous. I went out to eat with my friends. You have diarrhea after eating. I'm not. I'm not happy.

If you are not so confident and dare not laugh at yourself, then you can choose another way, that is, laugh at yourself in the past.

For example, sharing an anecdote about a childhood, the absurd years when I was young, etc. Personally, I prefer to share some of my drunken experiences frequently. After dealing with these things, it is easier to establish a good image in front of the audience or friends.

People, not only to others, but also to themselves. If you are only allowed to spit on others and not allowed to spit on others, it is easy to be annoying.

Spitting at others is bound to be offensive and offensive to some extent. If you don't grasp it well, it may appear that you are arrogant and look down on others, which is a bit dangerous. Self-mockery is a kind of self-mockery. Put yourself in a lower position and make others look tall, so it's safe. Beginners are advised to take it for a long time.