RAUL CUERO’s Interview About Creativity

For my next assignment, I had to watch Raul Cuero's interview about creativity.

This video was interesting, but honestly there were only a few key points that sparked my interest.

The fact the Dr. Raul Cuero came from nothing, yet still became a successful scientist is interesting to me, but more interesting is how he did it.  When he was discussing his college career, and how he was able to attend college due to a basketball scholarship, I was honestly not surprised that he said he was discriminated against, and thought of as 'less than' when he was off the basketball court and instead in the classroom.

But what I loved about his response to this, was that when others told him he was wrong, he took that comment not as a negative, but as a positive.  He used that comment of people telling him he was doing something wrong, and instead of letting it tear him down, he used it as inspiration to try and do better.  It is inspiring how he used what is normally thought of as a demeaning comment to build himself up.

The second comment he made that I agree with was his statement about children playing and connecting with one another.  In today's society, children area playing more with video games and computer screens than with toys and each other.  The fact that children are losing this interaction is damaging our society, because, as Dr. Cuero stated, ideas are formed in nature, not through a screen.  When children are playing with toys and talking to one another, they are forming ideas and building off of one another.  When children are staring at a screen during 'play time' the ideas are being lost.

The final argument that Dr. Raul Cuero makes that I agree with is the problem he has with the American educational system.  In the American education system today, we are teaching children to get jobs.  We are not teaching children in order for them to gain knowledge.  The problem with this is that now, children are focused on getting through school to get their degree to get a job to make money to send their children to school to get a degree to get a job to make money...It's an endless cycle.  If you instead teach children simply for the purpose of gaining knowledge, they will not turn into a product of the cycle.

The rest of what Dr. Cuero had to say, while important, honestly did not capture my attention all that much.  If you would like to check out the video for yourself, I have attached it below.