I found the actual progression of the interview to be extremely dull.There were certain answers/ stories I would have been more interested in hearing Cuero elaborate further on rather than having him continue on with answering this set list of questions. But regardless of that after hearing Raul Cuero talk about himself I do think that he is a pretty amazing and inspiring person.
Two quotes from the interview that I found really interesting were from his response to whether or not he thought children born into luxury were at a creative disadvantage. Cuero said that, "creativity had to do with how you perceive nature in relation with you existence",as well as that,"ideas emerge from interactions with other ideas". While I do agree with these statements to an extent I do not agree with Cuero one hundred percent.When talking about ideas emerging from other ideas Cuero implies that this can only happen through direct communication with other individuals, and once again while I'm not disagreeing with this, I think that the way in which Cuero states this he kind of ignores the idea of communication through a method other than human interaction - such as music, books, and television. When he also states that creativity is about how you perceive nature and your existence to it I also find fault in that I do not believe his 'definition' of creativity is something that would fit to all 'creative' individuals. Cuero answers come off as being developed solely from his own experiences in life, and there is nothing wrong with that, but I find his answers to take a sort of 'one-size-fits-all' form. One-size-fits-all being that he presents them in a manner in which his answers to these questions are applicable to all individuals, while personally I think that they can be applicable to many but not everyone.
While I know I just wrote a rant basically against some of Cuero's statements, once again I want to state that I do agree with them to an extent. Specially the concept of ideas emerging from interactions with other ideas. While I firmly believe there are multiple ways of communicating with people, I also believe that directly communicating and exchanging ideas with other individuals is something that helps, at least me, with the creative process and coming up with new ideas. As Cuero stated in the interview people all come from very different and diverse backgrounds and being able to communicate with other people who think or perceive the world in a different way helps in broadening your own views. Another concept I liked was that, whatever your goal, to be focused on it without having any fear over the process or of failing. Which I fell like is something that especially applies to the field of work I want to go into. You will fail in life, that is a given, but your focus should be on how this opportunity will help you grow as an individual and help you towards achieving your goals and to me that is I got from Cuero's answer.
HoustonPBS. "Microbiologist Raul Cuero PhD on Sparking Creativity on Living Smart with Patricia Gras.mpg." Online video clip. Youtube. Youtube, 24 May 2010. Web. 28 January 2018.
Two quotes from the interview that I found really interesting were from his response to whether or not he thought children born into luxury were at a creative disadvantage. Cuero said that, "creativity had to do with how you perceive nature in relation with you existence",as well as that,"ideas emerge from interactions with other ideas". While I do agree with these statements to an extent I do not agree with Cuero one hundred percent.When talking about ideas emerging from other ideas Cuero implies that this can only happen through direct communication with other individuals, and once again while I'm not disagreeing with this, I think that the way in which Cuero states this he kind of ignores the idea of communication through a method other than human interaction - such as music, books, and television. When he also states that creativity is about how you perceive nature and your existence to it I also find fault in that I do not believe his 'definition' of creativity is something that would fit to all 'creative' individuals. Cuero answers come off as being developed solely from his own experiences in life, and there is nothing wrong with that, but I find his answers to take a sort of 'one-size-fits-all' form. One-size-fits-all being that he presents them in a manner in which his answers to these questions are applicable to all individuals, while personally I think that they can be applicable to many but not everyone.
While I know I just wrote a rant basically against some of Cuero's statements, once again I want to state that I do agree with them to an extent. Specially the concept of ideas emerging from interactions with other ideas. While I firmly believe there are multiple ways of communicating with people, I also believe that directly communicating and exchanging ideas with other individuals is something that helps, at least me, with the creative process and coming up with new ideas. As Cuero stated in the interview people all come from very different and diverse backgrounds and being able to communicate with other people who think or perceive the world in a different way helps in broadening your own views. Another concept I liked was that, whatever your goal, to be focused on it without having any fear over the process or of failing. Which I fell like is something that especially applies to the field of work I want to go into. You will fail in life, that is a given, but your focus should be on how this opportunity will help you grow as an individual and help you towards achieving your goals and to me that is I got from Cuero's answer.
HoustonPBS. "Microbiologist Raul Cuero PhD on Sparking Creativity on Living Smart with Patricia Gras.mpg." Online video clip. Youtube. Youtube, 24 May 2010. Web. 28 January 2018.
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