Good Moods
Good moods, while they last, enhance our ability to think with flexibility and with more complexity, hence making it easier to find solutions to problems, whether intellectual or interpersonal. So one way to help someone think through a problem is to tell them a joke. Laughing, like elation, seems to help people think more broadly and associate more freely, noticing relationships that might have eluded them otherwise — a mental skill important not just in creativity, but in reorganizing complex relationships and foreseeing the consequences of a given decision. So dude, laugh more often, tell jokes, and be very merry!
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