4 Free Courage Activities
Entrepreneurs have to be brave. They must try new things, talk to new people, take risks and solve problems that others are afraid to tackle. This is called courage!
Entrepreneurs have to be brave. They must try new things, talk to new people, take risks and solve problems that others are afraid to tackle. This is called courage!
Entrepreneurs don’t always know what challenges they will face. They have to make changes when problems come up and find new ways to make their ideas work. This is called adaptability.
Entrepreneurs come up with clever solutions to challenges. This sometimes means using unlikely materials or trying unique solutions. We call this resourcefulness.
Entrepreneurs see mistakes as ways to learn new things. They know that it’s okay to not succeed every time you try something. We call this embracing failure.
Entrepreneurs keep trying to solve problems even when they face tough
times. We call trying over and over again PERSISTENCE and we call using
determination GRIT.
Entrepreneurs spend a lot of time thinking about and coming up with creative solutions to problems. We call this problem solving!
Entrepreneurs use their creativity to ask questions and seek new ways of learning and doing. We call this curiosity!
Learn how one young student took action using empathy and how you can get better at identifying and solving problems in your community!
Entrepreneurs use their imaginations and try to think in new ways. We call this creativity!
Entrepreneurs observe, identify, and act to solve problems. They get a lot of ideas for new businesses by thinking about how they could change things and how they could make life better for people. We call this opportunity seeking!
In this activity, students will use their five senses and focus on what’s going on around them, then make inferences to find opportunities and offer creative solutions.
Entrepreneurs think about people’s feelings and needs and keep those in mind when solving problems. We call this empathy.
Think outside the box to find creative solutions to challenges with reverse brainstorming! This isn’t your normal brainstorming technique: instead of solving a problem, you make it worse!
Entrepreneurs are hopeful about their ideas and making changes that help others. We call this optimism. This week’s activities help show us how optimism helps us succeed!
Help students think like entrepreneurs with this fun, free, and practical pitching activity updated with remote learning in mind!
Using VentureLab curriculum, Maggie Miller teaches her 10-year-old nephew virtually! She’s adjusted lessons to work with online learning in a new way.
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