The Humor Hack: Using Humor to Feel Better, Increase Resilience, and (Yes) Enjoy Your Work

The Humor Hack is an entirely different book about using humor to lead a more engaged life. It’s a playbook filled with anecdotes, exercises, and discussion of topics that will provide readers a way to understand how humor works and how they can take this knowledge and enrich their personal and professional lives with more laughs, enjoyment, and mirth. The book’s content is based in research, but not academic in tone or format, and is accessible to the general reader. The subject matter is broken into chapters that teach people how to understand, recognize, and produce more humor in their day-to-day lives. It is written in a friendly and warm tone and avoids being nothing more than a series of stories about humor or an overly theory-laden academic book. It provides readers with a book that is enjoyable to read, informative, playful, and educational. That's why this is best described as a playbook. The book is meant to provide a sort of text that is missing in the current books out there that profess to be humor how-tos. It takes research related to humor and discusses it in an informed yet accessible fashion.

Michael K. Cundall Jr. is a professor of philosophy and humor researcher. He's been studying humor for two decades. He's written on a variety of topics related to humor including, humor and leadership, teaching with humor, the cognition of humor, among other things. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and the University of Cincinnati. He has given talks to the US Army on humor and leadership, as well as countless business and community organizations on the benefits of humor for a meaningful and engaged life. You can find out more about him on his website www.mirthmanagement.co or visit his YouTube channel under The Humor Hack.