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As a creativity keynote speaker I love seeing audience members jump up on stage and get out of their comfort zone with improv. Not that it’s easy to get them to do that. But once they find out how much fun it is, their creativity is unleashed. Because creativity is and should be fun.
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Now science is discovering that creativity is also linked to being funny. Researchers at USC wanted to find out what happens in the brain when we try to be funny. They wanted to find out how the brain physiology changes. So they had amateurs and professionals, along with a control group of non comedians come up with two captions for a cartoon – one that was funny, and one that wasn’t.