Comedy As A Meta State? Part 1
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Recently I met with my friend Logan Christopher of Legendary Strength and Lost Empire Herbs. "Lately I feel like I've been taking my life and myself way too serious," I told him. "I'm just not having as much fun as I used to even though I'm still doing the same things and my life hasn't changed recently." "What quality do you think you need more of?" He asked. "Definitely more humor. More comedy." By the end of our meeting he proposed a few challenges for me to help me bring more humor and comedy into my life. One of them was writing this and follow it with a few more writings on what I've done to become more humorous and my life more enjoyable through comedy. What is comedy? After meeting with Logan I started to really think about this question. Why are you funny sometimes and sometimes not? Why does everything seem so serious sometimes and sometimes life seems like one endless sitcom? What I've come to realize is that humor is a tremendous resource and it's a meta state. One way humor is a resource is it makes anything unpleasant easier to deal with. The more comedy you see in the world everyday the lighter everything seems. Problems aren't such a big deal anymore. Even the mundane is enjoyable when it's framed with humor. I find that when I'm light and humorous fewer problems plague me and I find it easier to solve problems. A humorous perspective takes stepping back from a situation and stepping into a state of observing yourself or a context and making a statement about it framed or reframed in comedy. This is a meta state. Two films come to mind that make wonderful statements about comedy. Dr. Strangelove directed by Stanley Kubrick started out as a serious film about the Cold War and the possibility of nuclear annihilation. As Kubrick was developing the screenplay with other screenwriters they found the subject so serious and depressing that the only way they could work on it was by making light of it and cracking jokes. Gradually the screenplay turned into a comedy. The film was a critical and box office success and is now a classic. Crimes And Misdemeanors written and directed by Woody Allen makes an interesting statement about comedy. Alan Alda is in the movie and his character is a movie producer who theorizes that comedy is tragedy plus time. In other words, when you can get distance from pain and misery it becomes funny. Woody Allen challenges his theory by throwing a counter example at him, the Holocaust. Alda's response is "Not enough time." To Be Continued.....

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Damon Cart is considered to be a natural talent by some of the best NLP trainers in the world. His approach to guiding and teaching students brings to their awareness that they've been doing NLP all of their lives without realizing it and he empowers them with skills and resources to thrive and reach their full potential. With the understanding of how Neuro Linguistic Programs create oneβs experience a person can then take charge of those programs and create the experience and the life they want. By taking this approach into his own rigorous, daily NLP practice Damon has been able to rapidly accelerate his progress in learning, coaching clients and teaching workshops.