The Humor Hack: Using Humor to Feel Better, Increase Resilience, and (Yes) Enjoy Your Work

by Michael K. Cundall Jr.

The Humor Hack is an entirely different book about using humor to lead a more engaged life. It’s a playbook filled with anecdotes, exercises, and discussion of topics that will provide readers a way to understand how humor works and how they can take this knowledge and enrich their personal and professional lives with more laughs, enjoyment, and mirth. The book’s content is based in research, but not academic in tone or format, and is accessible to the general reader. The subject matter is broken into chapters that teach people how to understand, recognize, and produce more humor in their day-to-day lives. It is written in a friendly and warm tone and avoids being nothing more than a series of stories about humor or an overly theory-laden academic book. It provides readers with a book that is enjoyable to read, informative, playful, and educational. That's why this is best described as a playbook. The book is meant to provide a sort of text that is missing in the current books out there that profess to be humor how-tos. It takes research related to humor and discusses it in an informed yet accessible fashion.

184 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 5, 2022

Reviews

[Jeff Sovich · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Humor Hack by Michael K. Cundall, Jr. packs a tremendous amount of practical wisdom into a slim, pithy volume. Cundall's observations and anecdotes on the value of humor in life and work are a much needed balm for the emotional wounds dealt by the unrelenting tension of our age. Using plentiful examples from both the classroom and home, Dr. Mike demonstrates the importance of having and sharing a sense of humor. Being receptive to humor in situations that are traditionally considered "serious" and having the courage to risk making comments that may be perceived as inappropriate, in order to lighten the mood, can bring great benefit to our personal, academic, and professional lives. A quick read, full of levity and well worth the time!