In Candace Allen's article "The Entrepreneur as Hero," Allen argues that the entrepreneur fits the description of a hero, a title that is normally reserved for those "who fought dragons or overcame evil." Allen states that there are three stages that qualify a person as a hero. First, a hero departs from the familiar and comfortable enters the unknown, risking failure or loss. Second, a hero encounters hardship or challenge and overcomes it. Third, a hero brings back the community something new or better than what they had. Allen is correct in her reasoning that the entrepreneur is a hero of our society due to the fact that an entrepreneur fits the criteria for a hero and is a key to the economic growth of our economy.
An entrepreneur fits the first criterion of being a hero by moving past the current expected ways or norms and moves forth to find a better way of doing things. The entrepreneur is on a mission, ignoring others who say what is or is not possible, determined to move forward, out of the usual into the unknown. The mindset of an entrepreneur is as an optimist, seeing not what cannot be, but what might be. As Allen states, an entrepreneur is going out of his circle of comfort into an area that he might not be comfortable in. He is determined to reach his goal even if it means venturing away from the current thought process of the rest of the world.
An entrepreneur fits the first criterion of being a hero by moving past the current expected ways or norms and moves forth to find a better way of doing things. The entrepreneur is on a mission, ignoring others who say what is or is not possible, determined to move forward, out of the usual into the unknown. The mindset of an entrepreneur is as an optimist, seeing not what cannot be, but what might be. As Allen states, an entrepreneur is going out of his circle of comfort into an area that he might not be comfortable in. He is determined to reach his goal even if it means venturing away from the current thought process of the rest of the world.
