It was until recently that I truly understood the meaning behind social entrepreneur – before then social entrepreneur was like this vague idea that we have discussed in class.

“The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur” specifically goes into details of how to find the potential social entrepreneurs who may change the world in one day. From my point of view, the best ideas often come from spontaneity – no one could actually predict what acts, ideas, values, or plans may possibly change the world.

However, if we were able to spot these ideas, it would be so useful not only for the general public who benefits it, but also for policy and decision makers.Social entrepreneurs not only see the social problems arise in the society, but they also seek to make use of the entrepreneurial principles to achieve influential social changes. Particularly, the author pointed out how the media in nowadays only focuses on problems and not innovative response to them – this seems to impede and hamper our creative problem-solving skills, which may be the reason why it seems so hard to find future social entrepreneurs in today’s world. Perhaps, creative problem-solving skill is what people in today’s world are lacking.

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External blog source: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/the-rise-of-social-entrepreneur/