Suggested by Chris Brogan on the Grasshoppers forum:
“This week, at least twice, spend a moment of your time promoting someone else. Do your best to tell someone else about a friend or colleague of yours that you admire, and that you feel deserves more attention. Use your blog or podcast or email or LinkedIN or whatever to get the message out there.
Do this THIS WEEK.”
The second ‘promotion’ will come later this week, and will probably be a bit more personal (as in a personal friend). But for now, the first person.
The first person I’m going to promote is Sarah Deutsch. She’s a really visionary person, in my opinion. She has unique (and what I think are really good) thoughts about education. And she’s in the process of starting up a drama school, with more focus on hands on education (Sarah, if I’m making any mistakes, feel free to jump in and I’ll correct it). I’m not very sure of the details, but I think it’s a really good idea started by a really inspiring person. Would encourage you guys to help in whatever way you can, through giving ideas, funding, or whatever way you can think of.
But now, more importantly, what about you? I encourage you to take Chris’ suggestion and promote someone else who you think deserves it. I think the world would be so much better if we all just took time to promote someone else instead of focusing on ourselves. So, yeah. Who do you think deserves attention?
Hey Derrick,
Thanks for the wonderful words of encouragement! I’ve been inspired by a lot of your thoughts on alternative education, and it’s great to hear that you’re into the Drama Farm idea. I’ve been working really hard to build a community of people with varied talents who are interested in the project, and you’re the first non-theatre-person to chime in!
Chris’ suggestion to promote each other is a great one – I think we should all spend more time acknowledging the amazing people around us. Thanks for choosing me! =)
Hi Sarah,
You’re more than welcome. =). Keep creating. Really looking forward to see what comes out of your project. Hope it’s going well.