Could Acting class make you a better entrepreneur? Check out one of my favorite actors Jeffrey Wright on entrepreneurship. He ties it to a critical skill in acting: the suspension of disbelief. Note: Wright does social entrepreneurship work in Sierra Leone. What's that? A social entrepreneur solves social problems on a large scale. A social entrepreneur focuses on creating social capital usually to help solve a social or environmental problem.
Challenge: Dream a job for yourself that doesn't exist right now but will create value for many people. Suspend your own disbelief. If this job doesn't exist in your community, you'll have to dream it into existence. Write it down. Give it a name. Act it out. Tell your best friend about it. Look for role models doing something similar. Risk sharing your dream with people who could make it happen.
Super Challenge: Imagine you can leverage social capital among your friends to solve a social or environmental problem. What's the problem? How could you use social interactions to problem solve? How can you leverage the internet? How can you use storytelling or acting to solve world problems?
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