Raul Cuero

Raul Cuero's story was very inspirational to me. It is a story of a man overcoming many significant struggles with the odds completely stacked against him. Raul was raised in Columbia in poverty and had uneducated parents who could not read or write. When he came over to the United States he excelled in basketball and was able to gain a scholarship which furthered his education. He graduated college and went on to bring a great deal to the science community. In the United States he experienced many situations of discrimination in which he used to fuel himself to work even harder. He is now a professor of microbiology and has 9 scientific inventions to his name. He also started up and is research director of his own organization called the International Park of Creativity. A couple ideas that he had that I enjoyed are below:

"Creativity has nothing to do with art or being intellectually advanced. Creativity has to do with how you perceive nature in relation with your assistance."-Raul Cuero

"Everything is a process, never let the results be the motive for you doing anything"-Raul Cuero

"Learn by doing...."

I can easily apply some of the things that Raul Cuero expressed in the interview to my everyday life. Learn by doing is a basic statement but one thing I definitely need to keep in mind. If a person just sits back and thinks about something in contrast to actually performing this action the idea may not be as effective. He also expressed that taking your time with something is always worth it and that everything is a process with many steps before completion.