The class clown collects laughs and dodges questions. Make sure the jokes aren’t doing your hiding for you.

Humour is a genuine skill and also an excellent exit. A joke lands, the attention shifts, and the question heading toward you quietly disappears. Done often enough, it becomes a way of being known widely and seen by nobody, which is lonelier than it looks from outside the room. The funny part is real, and the dodging is the part worth watching.

Notice one moment this week where a joke arrives just as something honest was about to. Let the honest thing out instead. You can be funny again thirty seconds later.