How to Develop Your Creative Identity at Work: Integrating Personal Creativity Within Your Professional Role

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O. Velcu-LaitinenHow to Develop Your Creative Identity at Workhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8680-7_16

16. Talking With Humor

Oana Velcu-Laitinen¹  

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Helsinki, Finland

 

What Is Humor?

“What are the best qualities that you think helped you enjoy the success you currently have?”, I asked the creators interviewed in this book.

Persistence, believing in yourself, and creativity were the most commonly referred to. Other skills, individually mentioned, were the ability to embrace change, continuous learning, curiosity, empathy, hard work, interest, motivation, patience, purpose, and self-inquiry. Nobody talked about humor.

When a group of preschoolers in Helsinki ...