Wednesday, 18 June 2014

How to laugh over the same joke over and over again

How to laugh over the same joke over and over again 


Title refer to the well know story, A wise man sat in the audience and cracked a joke , Everyone laughs like crazy. After a moment , he cracked the same joke again. this time, less people laughed. He cracked the same joke again and again. When there is no laughter in the crowed , He smiles and said
"When you can't laugh over the same joke over and over again...then why do you cry over the same thing again & again?"

Today , Lets find how to laugh on same joke again and again. It is not easy but surely not very difficult. Let me introduce one of most famous Hollywood movie "The Internship":
Story:
Billy McMahon (Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (Wilson) seek employment after being laid off from their positions as watch salesmen when their employer goes out of business. Billy then applies for an internship at Google for the two of them, and they are accepted due to their unorthodox interview answers, despite a lack of relevant experience; they are the only interns not of traditional collegiate age. They will spend the summer competing in teams against other interns, in a variety of tasks, and only the members of the winning team will be guaranteed jobs with Google. Billy and Nick are teamed with other interns seen as rejects: Stuart, who is usually engrossed in his smart phone; Yo-Yo, a Filipino-American boy; and Neha, an Indian-American girl. The team is led by Lyle, who constantly tries to act hip in order to hide his insecurities. Look at the below video, Its funny video when the teams are tasked with developing an app.First look at this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFAGpIKudh4

If you see this video and do not feel to laugh even at single point, Don't worry, nothing is wrong with you, you are normal human. Before we learn to laugh remember Billy McMahon (Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (Wilson) are rich with salesman experience not as "Techie".

1) Billy and Nick both are very enthusiastic and encouraging their mates to develop app. Billy says "Go backward to go forward " and next second he says " Alright guys , I don't want to kill the momentum".
We really don't understand what the hell Billy try to do, Encourage or Discourage ? This point makes you laugh where billy start telling his crap idea with confidence. Same time observe the other guys faces , how confused they are !!  In fact Neha get discourage and move away from board.

 2) Did you observer Neha ? She got totally confused with Billy's idea , She must be thinking that "Billy is speaking just bunch of words which really means nothing"

3) Stuart explain that this idea is already exist in market with name of Instagram , "No no , mine is very different " Billy says. please check here below how Billy explain to Yo-Yo that "How it's very different"
OMG, What an attitude dude , What an attitude Billy shows here , check out his gesture while explaining to Yo-Yo, He throws the ball up in air and catch it , Just like He has got one of the Innovative or billion dollar idea. Billy is from salesman background and he hardly have any idea about internet world or technology world, He even don't have idea that how old his idea, still just look at his confidence.


4) Looking Billy's confidence Stuart get confused and clear his doubt by asking very quick question to Billy "When you keep saying On-The-Line do you mean Online ? "This is defiantly punch by Stuart where all of us feel laugh.

5)  Immediately Nick interrupt Stuart and says ""Don't do that to a man, He got million dollar idea right here , Even better ,Let him flow" . Well , This is not mistake of Nick but he is also from same background like Billy, Who hardly know about internet technology. This makes you to laugh if you watch out the Nick's foolish supporting confidence.

6) Another funny part throughout this video is , Billy keep on neglecting his team lead Lyle (Guy in spect) who is trying to correct Billy on the word "On-The-Line" throughout conversation. Innocently Lyle keep on correcting him with "Online". his innocent face makes you laugh throughout video. Look it again.

Now come to our point, If you want to laugh on the same joke again and again then try to listen/see it carefully, magnify micro things in the scene/joke and you can be able to laugh at the same joke again and again. If you share same with you friends then you may find another more funny stuff in that.
However we do exactly opposite to it , we keep on thinking of sad incidents of our life again n again. Suppose "someone leaves/hurts you" . This is very simple but we make it very complicated and huge by thinking very small and micro memories with that person. Nothing is wrong to think about good memories but bad memories makes you sad. So narrow the sorrow and cherish the happy moments.

Corporate world also need to learn from this video, No matter how foolish your colleague's idea, either you should support him like Nick or You should ask him proper explanation with polite manner like Yo-Yo or You should clear yourself first with his idea like Stuart and most important if you are lead then you should keep quite in team discussion and let team to play game, What maximum lead can do is support team-member without disturbing foolish idea. Most important even though in whole post I was trying to make you laugh but remember one thing as good team mate "you should not laugh on foolish idea , instead of that welcome it and show true team spirit" That is what all others was doing in this video when Billy speak.

#Smile

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