Humorous a Sign of Intelligence In order to produce exceptional humor, one must be highly creative and original. For example, if one creates a joke, they use both halves of their brain. The right brain is used for the creativity, the funniness of the joke. Their left brain is used to actually formulate the joke so it can be presented to someone in a sensible manner. The mind must be swift to make the connections between a set line of jokes or a play on words. Humor is a sign of creative innovation. This innovation aspect applies to people who can see and relate the world around them in a logical and sensible manner, but also in an unusual way. This brings up the saying “thinking outside of the box.” The general audience a joke is told to is “inside the box” while the joke teller is “outside the box.” This is the reason as to why some of the audience may laugh at someone’s joke, but a few others don’t.
You can have a sense of humor and a source of humor. Having a sense of humor means that you can understand and laugh at a joke (e.g. “a man’s third leg”). If one has a source of humor, they could create a joke or a pun. You can have a sense of humor but be well off without a source of humor because you can laugh at any joke spoken to you. It is quite unlikely to only have a source of humor because one would not know whether a joke is funny or not.
Someone with a sense of humor is able to strive in a social environment better than one without. For example, someone could get the attention of a group of people and tell them all a joke, and will hopefully make them all bust out in laughter. But in the case of someone who doesn’t, they would have to seek out other methods of interacting with others. Studies have shown that a good sense of humor is sexually attractive. This may be so because it reveals intelligence and creativity in a person. In this case,