Yeah, I agree that humor is way better than not! But what about my question: Did you recall deliberately cultivating this skill, or were you always the one with the wisecracks from age 3 on?
Once upon a time I considered studying standup comedy. Not because I thought I would be a natural but precisely because I wasn't. I chickened out. It would have been a very bloody/painful road if I'd tried, and then tried to improve. No “natural” at all. But I still sometimes look at my books on humor and anatomy of standup comedy and wonder how different I would be right now if I'd just chosen differently. You know, if I'd had a little more courage and determination to make that a priority (instead of studying math and particle physics).
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