Raul Cuero PhD on Sparking Creativity on Living Smart

First off I just want to say this man is really inspiring, coming from no money and still exceeding all expectations of him by becoming a very smart and successful man. He inspired me to take in his experiences and concepts and apply them to my everyday life. There were two things that really stuck out to me; first was that he took all bad things, like criticism and racism, and looked at them in a positive way to motivate him. Haters are your motivators, what my friends always say. I am a real goof ball and my friends never take me serious when it comes to school work, so I use that to motivate me to get better grades than them (which I have so HA to my friends reading this). Also I think this applies to my art work; when I get criticized on a piece of work, I don't give up I try to make it better and don't give up until there is nothing bad to say about it. Another part of this was exceeding expectations; what came to my mind was when I apply for jobs, I don't want to have the bare minimum on my resume I want to exceed the expectations of the hiring manager so that my resume stands out more than anyone else. The second thing that stuck out to me was when he said we have to do everything with intensity.  He went into detail explaining that "we have to be committed and focused without fear of failing in the process of achieving something." Which I think goes along with when he said that the process is were you find ideas, creativity comes in a step process. There is a process in achieving any goal and even if we "fail" a couple times during that process it is not a bad thing. Every "fail" creates an new idea on how to fix that mistake which is triggering creativity. So I think if I keep focussed and committed I will be reminded that a "fail" isn't really failing it is a learning process that leads to creativity.