【英文版 128】Jeffrey Wright: Shape Your Reality

构建自己的现实

【Background】 

【背景介绍】

Shape Your Reality, with Jeffrey Wright, Actor and Entrepreneur

“Business is storytelling,” so says Jeffrey Wright, the Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe- winning actor and entrepreneur who founded Taia Lion Resources, a mineral exploration company focused on ethical and sustainable mining in Sierra Leone.

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今天我们请到了杰夫瑞·怀特，他是一名演员，也是一名企业家。今天的课程中，他将为我们讲解把怀疑放在一边的重要性。

“做生意就是讲故事。” 杰夫瑞·怀特说，作为演员，他取得了托尼奖，艾美奖，金球奖，作为企业家，他创立了泰亚狮资源公司，这是一家坐落于狮子山的采矿公司，致力于采矿事业的伦理道德与可持续发展。

【Course】 

【课程】

Business is storytelling. Theater plays a very significant role for me because the idea in theater is that we’re going to refashion reality, okay? Everybody is going to buy into this idea, suspend disbelief. Here we are in New Orleans at the beginning of the 19th century. Everybody got it, everybody believe? Okay, this is our story. These are the ideas that we want to press forward. These are the emotions that you’re going to feel, and everybody buys into it. So the sneaky idea I think about that theater delivers is that okay we can reshape this reality and perhaps when you go outside the theater it’s possible for you to reshape that reality too.

做生意就是讲故事。剧院对我的影响很大，因为剧院的理念就是我们要去重构现实，让它焕然一新。人人都会接受剧院的重构，把怀疑抛在一边。我们现在正在19世纪初的新奥尔良。大家都明白了这一点，大家都相信这一点了吗？好，这就是我们的故事了。这些是我们想要传达的观点，这些是你们将会体验的情感，每个人都会接受它们。所以，我认为剧院偷偷传达的观点是，我们可以在这里改变现实，并且当你走出剧院，你也可能可以改变现实。

This is very much central to what we’re trying to do within the context of Sierra Leone, say that look forget everything you’ve heard about neglect of local communities, forget all of that. We’re going to do this thing in a new way. We’re going to press forward in a new way. It’s going to happen, but it’s not going to happen unilaterally. It’s going to happen through a partnership and that’s really what we focus on with the communities where they have to come to the table and meet us there as equals. What we’re trying to do is write stories, create a vision, a developmental vision, act on it as an organization. We really are the company, the theater company, and the characters within this story are real lives, the lives of our employees, the lives of the people with which we engage.

这就是我们在狮子山想要做的事业的核心，忘记你听说的那些负面新闻，忘记采矿公司对本土居民的忽视。我们会用全新的方式开展、推行这番事业。它会这样进行下去，但不是单方面地推动。它会以合作形式展开，这就是我们想要携手社区共同关注的地方，他们必须和我们坐在一起，平等地会面。我们正努力写出新故事，创造一种发展的眼光，以公司的名义采取行动。我们确实是一家公司，但我们是一家公司，一家戏院型的公司，而故事中的角色都是真正的人，是我们的雇员，是我们遇见的人们。

So you have to instill a sense of faith, really, in those things unknown, that the vision will be realized. Suspension of disbelief is critical to pressing forward and realizing a new reality whether it be in the theater or whether it be in business.

所以，你必须相信，在未知的事情中，梦想是能够实现的。不论是在剧院，还是在公司，把怀疑抛在一边对推进和实现一个新现实来说都是非常重要的。 

【Summary】 

【总结】

“You have to instill a sense of faith, really, in those things unknown, that the vision will be realized,” he says. “Suspension of disbelief is critical to pressing forward and realizing a new reality whether it be in the theater or whether it be in business.”

In this lesson, Wright explains how to rally your team behind a mission by leveraging the magic of storytelling.

在这节课中，杰夫瑞·怀特为我们讲解了如何利用讲故事的魔力，为实现某个目标集结自己的团队。

“你必须相信，在未知的事情中，梦想是能够实现的”，他说，“不论是在剧院，还是在公司，把怀疑抛在一边对推进和实现一个新现实来说都是非常重要的。” 

本节目英文版音频和视频均由美国Big Think Edge 独家授权，中文版由喜马拉雅制作播出。感谢收听，我们下集节目再见！