{"id":71,"date":"2010-12-14T09:11:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T09:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/?p=71"},"modified":"2011-10-28T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T16:54:34","slug":"from-ha-ha-to-aha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/2010\/12\/14\/from-ha-ha-to-aha\/","title":{"rendered":"From &#8220;Ha-ha&#8221; to &#8220;Aha!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/07\/science\/07brain.html?_r=1\">study<\/a>\u00a0on puzzles, problem-solving and laughter, demonstrating that people find it easier to solve puzzles through a flash of insight after they&#8217;ve watched something funny. \u00a0I love this from two points of view:<\/p>\n<p>As a puzzle maniac, I agree that even thinking about a good one (cryptic crosswords are my drug of choice) induces a pleasant mind-state &#8211; something they found in the study. \u00a0And that moment of insight when the answer suddenly appears is one of the great joys of life, to me.<\/p>\n<p>And as a creator of leadership-skills practice sessions which always combine laughter with serious practice, I constantly see how insight follows the loosening-up process of watching a funny live scene.<\/p>\n<p>Glad to have the neurology to prove it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New\u00a0study\u00a0on puzzles, problem-solving and laughter, demonstrating that people find it easier to solve puzzles through a flash of insight after they&#8217;ve watched something funny. \u00a0I love this from two points of view: As a puzzle maniac, I agree that even thinking about a good one (cryptic crosswords are my drug of choice) induces a pleasant &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/2010\/12\/14\/from-ha-ha-to-aha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-how-we-learn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}