Actor Jeffrey Wright helped set up the Taia Peace Foundation four years ago with the aim of helping African nations more effectively utilize their natural resources and develop sustainable business practices. He doesn't see business and acting as being very different. Rather, he argues that successful entrepreneurship and believable acting tap into many of the same skills. In particular, both require getting audiences to "buy into" an idea. Wright explains the how business and acting are similar in this short Big Think interview:
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Posted
06-06-2011 3:32 AM
by
Graham Griffith