How to find laughter anywhere | Chris Duffy

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Why are some people really funny and others ... not so much? Comedian Chris Duffy shows how you can sharpen your sense of humor and start laughing every day — by seeing the world like a kid.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily,
0:10.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:14.8	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:16.5	Today a humorous talk about how not to lose your sense of humor.
0:21.2	It's from my friend comedian and fellow Ted Audio Collective
0:24.4	host Chris Duffy. He teaches us an important lesson on how to turn off
0:28.8	self-judgment. It's a lesson he learned from an unexpected source,
0:33.7	his former elementary school students.
0:36.5	Coming up after a break.
0:40.2	And now our TED Talk of the day.
0:43.0	My favorite part about working in an elementary school
0:45.0	is that I could never predict what was going to happen next.
0:48.0	Every day was in a new incredible day.
0:50.0	There was never a boring moment.
0:52.0	I was teaching a class on human biology
0:54.7	to my fifth grade students
0:56.3	when one of them afterwards handed in this anonymous question card.
1:01.2	And you know, what really gets me about this, what kills me is we had spent so long studying punctuation.
1:10.0	And he still used a period instead of a question mark.
1:13.4	What are balls for, period?
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