• intentional laughter opens receptivity to new ideas
• intentional laughter produces dopamine, associated with pleasure, learning and memory
• intentional laughter creates a healthy, pleasant, cooperative environment for teachers and students
• intentional laughter facilitates embodied understanding, beyond intellectual knowledge
• intentional laughter life lessons are revealed by implication rather than application (ripple effects, not by rote)
• intentional laughter encourages insights, later trusted as instinct without requiring techniques
• intentional laughter is not a mastery model, helping us embrace progress over perfection
• intentional laughter helps us accept and appreciate paradoxes are not riddles to be solved
• intentional laughter attunes us to notice synchronicities, symbolism, and often unseen connections
• intentional laughter points to many self-correcting mechanisms that allow us to get out of our own way
• intentional laughter transcends cultural and language barriers