“It is better to try big things even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.” - Theodore Roosevelt.

 

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If you are not content with everything in your life then you have two options. You can either give up on your desires so that they stop generating bad feelings or else you can develop the competence and resourcefulness that allows you to fulfill your desires. As a result, you will spend a very large part of your life developing skills, learning processes and implementing new habits. Through getting through the learning curve quicker and with enhanced effectiveness you can power ahead to get what you want with less difficulty.

Humor revolves around leading people to false conclusions before surprising them with an alternative conclusion. The funny thing is that we often make wrong conclusions about many things in life. Understanding the mechanism of humor can help us to get a better grasp on interpreting reality to our advantage. In this way we can understand problems with greater clarity and resolve them much easier.

This article is the fifth in a short series that defines the underlying thinking upon which the ideas, theories, and methods written about in this blog are based. This helps you to understand what makes the content of this blog significantly different from other blogs about self-development. This article is 400 words long and will take about 2-minutes to read.

This article is 1400 words long and will take about 7-minutes to read.