Sean Smith's Blog

Lara Galinsky, a senior vice president in a non-for profit organization known as Echoing Green, recently wrote a post regarding social entrepreneurs and the fact that not everyone should be a social entrepreneur. She mentions the vast array of interest people have as they want to change some of the huge problems around the world. People often mention they want to help education levels in undeveloped countries; however, they don’t understand the threats and just what it takes to be a social entrepreneur.

I agree with Lara Galinsky, It seems apparent that people want to become social entrepreneurs because they have this vision of changing the world; however, its only a far fetch image that isn’t for everyone. They want to create an organization that solves a huge social problem in the world today, but the problem is THEY want to do it. It becomes about saving the world and having a nice title; meanwhile, social entrepreneurship has a tremendous reliance on volunteers, sponsors etc., and they miss the fact that they can’t be selfish. Are humans naturally selfish? This is important to ask and I think to some degree we are, but the true and best social entrepreneurs are the ones who really do seek to make a change for the benefit of others, opposed to simply doing great things to have the title of a world changer. Are you cut out to be a social entrepreneur? or does self gain and motivation hold you back?