Ebook: Life Is a Joke: 100 Life Lessons (with Punch Lines)

It's the perfect marriage of wisdom and wit-here are 100 valuable lessons on how to live, drawn from 100 hilarious and unforgettable jokes. A really good joke, like a great poem, memorable song lyric, razor-sharp anecdote, or Zen koan, is a portal of discovery-it can get a meaningful message across in a way that's clear, humorous, and practical. It's the secret weapon of every great comedian-there's the joke, and then there's the subtext of the joke, and that can mean serious business. A funny, funny joke about a therapist and his patient conveys, for example, an important lesson on the power of communication. A surprising joke about a tribal shaman and the weather service turns into a necessary critique on how we should view experts.;Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Force of Habit -- 2. Leave Me a Loan -- 3. Great Expectations -- 4. Donâ#x80;#x99;t Confuse Me with Facts -- 5. The Big Picture -- 6. Feet of Clay -- 7. Good Enough? -- 8. Sorry, Frog -- 9. Efficiency Expert -- 10. Brain Freeze -- 11. The Old Sandbag Trick -- 12. Piece of Cake -- 13. Fast Friends -- 14. In Too Deep -- 15. Some Pig -- 16. Go With the Flow -- 17. Countdown -- 18. Buy, Buy, Baby -- 19. Insufficient Information -- 20. Too Much Information -- 21. Who, Me?