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Why Humor Is Vital For Your Success – Karyn Buxman
If writing burned calories, Karyn would be a Size 2! She’s written for numerous peer-reviewed journal and she’s the author of eight books. Her upcoming book is “Funny Means Money” (ForbesBooks, Spring18).
The media loves Karyn Buxman—she’s appeared in publications such as USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, Forbes, Shape, and Women’s Day. Karyn is one of 194 professionals (and one of only 43 women) in the world to be inducted into the National Speaker’s Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame. Wowing audiences with her high content and high energy—Karyn Buxman is serious about humor.
Resources and Places to Connect with Karyn:
Karyn’s TED Talk on How Humor Can Save The World
The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor: non-profit, member-driven, international community of humor and laughter professionals and enthusiasts.
Karyn’s Books:
Lead with Levity: Strategic Humor for Leaders
What’s So Funny About Heart Disease: A Creative Approach to Coping With Your Condition
What’s So Funny About… OR Nursing?: A Creative Approach to Celebrating Your Profession
What’s So Funny About Diabetes?: A Creative Approach to Coping with Your Disease
What’s So Funny About… Nursing?: A Creative Approach to Celebrating Your Profession
Amazed and Amused: How to Survive and Thrive as A Healthcare Professional
This Won’t Hurt A Bit! And Other Fractured Truths in Healthcare
I’ve Got One Nerve Left and You’re Standing On It
Nursing Perspectives on Humor by Karyn Buxman
Top learning moments:
- Humor has some incredible benefits – physically for your circulatory system and psychologically for how you deal with stress. We often think that humor is some side benefit that just helps us to enjoy life better, but the research shows that humor has some incredible physical benefits including helping to reduce stress, dealing with physical pain, and even, as Karyn mentioned, changing your genetics to positively impact future generations.
- You don’t have to be funny to have a sense of humor. We think that if we’re not the class clown we can’t benefit from humor. Karyn mentioned two aspects of humor that make up our HQ – the appreciation of humor and the application of humor. So open your eyes to the funny things you see every day and begin to intentionally develop an appreciation for humor and then share it with other people. You don’t want to be that person that’s always telling jokes because you think that’s what defined you as an individual, but you do want to authentically share funny things with people to give them the opportunity to see and experience more joy in their lives.
Mind For Life Essential Skills Course:
Here’s an article explaining what it’s all about – The 52 Essential Skills You Need For Success In Life And Business
Also, here’s our 52 Essential Skills Resource Page for more information on each of the 52 essential skills.
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