To mark the occasion of my first visit to Rome, I thought I would share the above cartoon. It illustrates one of the practical reasons why something like the study of religion might not be as irrelevant for entrepreneurs as is sometimes claimed.
In fact, I had this confirmed to me recently when my colleague Chad Bauman and I met with an alumnus of Butler University, Karl Hofstetter, who majored in religion and who went on to become the president and curator of a record label, Joyful Noise Recordings. His religion degree gave him all the training in understanding people, communicating, being creative, and being flexible that you need to do something like this. And contrary to what a lot of students who major in business seem to think, it is having those skills, and not having the piece of paper called a diploma that is supposed to vouchsafe those skills, which is what makes the difference.
Here is a photo from our meeting about a month ago, at the then newly-opened Scotty’s Dawghouse on the Butler University campus:
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