You Don’t Need a PhD to Be an Innovator

Part of the Innovation Cafe series by Gary Shuster, patent litigator and prolific inventor. Transcript Hey there, it’s Gary Schuster with Innovation Cafe with your 62nd pep talk. When I started my journey on inventing, I was a lawyer. I spent my time in law school. I was a sociology undergraduate. Yes, I had a […]

Dishes, Do-Overs & the Art of Letting Go of Failure

Innovation Cafe with Gary Shuster, patent litigator and prolific inventor. Transcript I want to talk about a weird part of creativity, and I’m going to call it dishes and do-overs. So we are all familiar with the phenomenon where you have something that you eat and you let it dry on the dish rather than […]

The Secret to Finding Opportunity: Don’t Wait, Seek!

Innovation Cafe with Gary Shuster, patent litigator and prolific inventor. Transcript Your next big opportunity is not going to just knock on your door and ask to be let in. Opportunity doesn’t knock. It hides sometimes. It doesn’t do a very good job hiding. But it’s not out there with a gigantic sash across its […]

How to Supercharge Learning: Trust But Verify

Innovation Cafe with Gary Shuster, patent litigator and prolific inventor. Transcript There are two ways we learn. The first is someone tells us and we believe it. The second is we do an experiment and we learn the result. The very first thing most humans do when born is cry. And that’s our first experiment. […]