How Going To Live Theater Makes You Professional At Work from LifeHack
With my theater background, and the fact that I write this career column, the title of this article immediately attracted my attention. It echoes some of my own thoughts very closely and reinforces what I have been telling my son recently about the importance of theater in his life and career.
If you and I were friends and I said to you, “Let’s go see a play,” your first reaction would probably be, “Bwahaha! Man, you’re a crackup!”
I get it. In the digital era, with movies on our phones and DVRs and Netflix, few of us can be bothered even to watch a TV show when the network wants us to. So the idea of driving to a theater, waiting in our seats until the curtain goes up… just to watch live actors standing in front of a hand-built set? No thanks.
But that’s too bad. Because as I learned attending maybe 100 such little plays in Los Angeles in my early 20s, going to these performances can teach you a great deal about how to be a professional. Here are a few of the lessons I’ve learned.
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