5 Jokes That Made Me Think And Laugh Because Life is Too Short to Be Serious
Three Professors — one each from Harvard, Wharton and MIT came together to answer a big question “How can I become more innovative?”
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5 min readOct 14, 2018
My secret sauce: Jokes.
The best way to connect their six year research to daily life is through jokes because jokes work in remembering wonky stuff with laughter.
Skill 1: Associating
Innovators associate ideas that are previously unconnected in our mind.
Joke 1: A turkey was chatting with a bull “I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree,” sighed the turkey, but I haven’t got the energy.”
“Well, why don’t you nibble on my droppings?” replied the bull. “They’re packed with nutrients.”
The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree.
