Late last year, I signed up for a standup comedy class. It was mostly on a whim, something fun and low-stakes to try after I embarked on a sabbatical in October, and only like 2-5% because I thought secretly I had within me the ability to be the next Taylor Tomlinson. While I didn’t end the class with an offer to host a late-night talk show, I found the experience enormously valuable for both my creative work and my work-work. Which is to say: the study of comedy turned out to be the study of how to live well.