Chapter 76 Humor can resolve the embarrassment of interpersonal communication

Accidentally knocking over a wine glass or stepping on a skirt in front of everyone, these small things will make us feel ashamed and embarrassed, and thus fall into an embarrassing situation.If you use a little humor to protect yourself at this time, you can easily get out of the predicament and change from passive to active. At a banquet held by the company, an employee accidentally spilled a glass of wine on the bald head of the company manager. Everyone present was stunned, and the employee turned pale with fright.At this moment, the manager unhurriedly picked up a towel, gently wiped off the wine on the bald head, and said heartily, "Did you know? In fact, wine has no obvious effect on treating baldness."

How important is a humorous word at such an awkward moment.The manager's wit and humor dispelled everyone's worries, and left a good impression of being smart, magnanimous, and intelligent, which is admirable. People with a sense of humor tend to be quick in thinking and quick in response, calm and unhurried in complex environments, with witty remarks, and often rely on the power of humor to save themselves from danger. During John Adams' campaign for the presidency of the United States, a Republican accused John Adams of sending his running mate, General Pincus, to England to choose four beauties as mistresses, two for Pincus and two for himself.John Adams laughed loudly after hearing this, and said: "If this is true, then General Pinks must have kept it from me and took it all for himself!

The humorous language here subtly resolves an embarrassing situation and avoids unnecessary conflicts. Once, Churchill, the British Prime Minister and Army Commander-in-Chief, went to inspect a unit.It had just rained, and when he was descending the steps after giving a speech on the temporary stage, he accidentally fell a somersault because of the slippery road.The soldiers, who had never seen their commander-in-chief stumble, laughed, and the accompanying officers panicked and didn't know what to do.Churchill smiled slightly and said, "This is more inspiring to the fighting spirit of the soldiers than the speech just now." The effect was indeed as Churchill joked. The soldiers felt a sense of intimacy and identification with the commander-in-chief, and they would definitely be more determined. Follow the orders of the commander-in-chief carefully, so as to fight more heroically.

Humor can also answer questions you don't want to hear. An architect speaks slowly, and the reporter who interviews him is constantly worried about running out of time.In desperation, the reporter had no choice but to say: "Mr. Bill, time is running out, can you please speak quickly?" After hearing this, Bill slowly took out his pipe and lit it, as slowly as he could, and lazily Say, "No, sir, but I can say less." Use humor to resolve difficulties, answer difficult questions, safeguard one's own interests, defend one's dignity, without hurting the other party's feelings, and achieve good results, which are incomparable by other means.

Robert Stevenson once said: "Generally, people who have mastered the power of humor have a superior personality, can feel their own strength freely, and deal with any difficult situation alone." Facing embarrassing situations in life We might as well use humor to deal with and resolve it. Humor is the lubricant of interpersonal relationships, it can soften the intensified conflicts, so as to avoid embarrassing scenes.Humor resolves the antagonistic emotions of both parties, so that the problem can be solved better.