Keeping a sense of humor helps too-it reduces stress and promotes creative thinking.

保持一点幽默感有很有帮助——因为它可以减少压力，激发创造性思维。

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There's a caveat, though: Humor can be distracting and may decrease performance on non-creative tasks.

尽管如此，这里有个警告：幽默能分散注意力，也许会降低非创造性任务的效能。

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Despite 11 penning a few humor columns for the school paper, he was subsequently rejected from a creative-writing class because of what he was told were weak sample submissions.

虽然他曾为校刊撰写过一些幽默专栏，但后来报读一个创意写作班时却被拒之门外，得到的解释是，他提交的作品样本较为逊色。

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