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Everybody Abraham Lincoln was well known in
his day for his sense of humor, and often
told funny stories to engage and earn the
trust of his audience.
During the Civil War, he sometimes visited
Washington area hospitals to lift the
wounded soldiers' spirits. After one such
visit, a journalist entered a hospital to
find infantrymen boisterously laughing and
talking about the president. He found it
curious to see injured men to be seemingly
so healthy.
"You must be very slightly wounded," he said
to the soldier.
"Yes," the soldier replied, "Very slightly.
I have only lost one leg, and I'd be glad to
lose the other, if I could hear some more of
'Old Abe's' stories."
What Honest Abe knew, and what more people
should learn, is that humor is an incredibly
powerful tool that can make anyone happy and
attentive even in the most trying of
circumstances. When somebody engages you
with humor, you genuinely want to listen,
and soak up more of what they are saying. If
humor can engage and motivate someone
subjected to Civil War era medicine, it can
engage and motivate anyone. And that’s why
hiring a motivational humorous speaker makes
good sense!
Today, motivational humorous speakers use
the massive power of comedy to make people
laugh and increase personal potential. The
magic of humorous motivational speaking is
its ability to stimulate people with comedy
while delivering gobs of inspirational
content. Unfortunately, most traditional
speakers (whose speeches can sometimes be as
bad as Civil War era medicine) totally miss
the chance to get their message across by
dryly orating in a monotone and artless way.
It's a tragedy that after spending a great
deal of time and money on a motivational
humorous speaker, some audiences still walk
away with nothing gained because they feel
they never had any real incentive to listen
in the first place. Even if the motivational
humorous speaker is one of the few who have
a truly fantastic, inspiring message, it
goes totally to waste because they fail to
engage the audience on a personal level.
Motivational humorous speakers can truly
change the world by changing people. In a
time when people's attention spans are so
small, watching a ten minute video on the
Internet is akin to reading "Moby Dick,"
Motivational humorous speakers know how to
grab people by the funny bone and get them
to listen to inspirational messages of
confidence and potential. With every person
they reach and energize, the world simply
becomes a better and funnier place to live. |
