Dr. Cuero, who is now a scientist and inventor, as a child was attracted by the behavior of insects and lizards in nature, but he also was very keen in knowing the nature of plants while he accompanied his greatmother to collect plants for herbal medicine. In addition, Dr. Cuero as a child was attracted by understanding cars’ movement including their parts such as tires, batteries, carburetors, and radiators. Thus, he learned at an early age from a mechanic in a mechanical shop next to his house about these car parts during his school vacations. This experience gave him the appreciation in the value of doing things with his hands at an early age and allowed him to develop a passion for science. These early experiences of Dr. Cuero using his hands for fixing or solving problems became the inducer for developing the passion, agility, and skills for his scientific and technological creative inventiveness by experimenting in the lab, an approach he has always successfully practiced as a bench scientist. These childhood experiences and observations in nature have also harnessed Dr. Cuero’s capacity for establishing differences between similarities, which is key for creativity or discovery. In addition, Dr. Cuero had to also survive economic scarcity and social challenges during his early years, which made him feel the effect of loneliness, and he confronted these challenges with courage through creativity. In fact, these challenges inspired him to write several books on loneliness, fear and courage, and creativity. Like most children growing up, Dr. Cuero enjoyed playing sports, soccer and basketball, outside with his friends. In fact, he became an outstanding competitive basketball player in his early youth, which allowed him to develop the sense of leadership and to understand the value of preparation continuously, which in this case is practicing, and to value and appreciate others for progress, that in this case is the value of constantly practicing to win as he always values winning. Today, Dr. Cuero carries himself with this attitude of constantly being in the lab and/ or the field experimenting and observing toward achieving inventions, and this attitude has worked out for him effectively.
Throughout his life, Dr. Cuero has had the opportunity to travel throughout the world, including presentations about science and creativity, as well as getting to know and understand different cultures intimately. He sees these experiences as one of the main contributing factors for developing an understanding and fairness for people, as well as transforming fear into courage to being creative. Dr. Cuero has also enjoyed reading the classics, including philosophers, as well as his fondness of anthropology and literature. Along with reading, he enjoys art, especially music, including classical and jazz. In fact, he would have loved to become a music composer if he had not become a scientist. However, his utmost attraction that he enjoys to the maximum is going to Africa for a safari because of his biocentric nature. Furthermore, Dr. Cuero thinks that the most important attribute in a person is to be generous, and that is the reason why he tries to create in science for contributing to the progress of mankind and society. Thus, Dr. Cuero fosters creativity in young professionals and other people through mentorship and/or conferences, internationally. In addition, he has written books on creativity, including How to Create: The Joy of Creativity (Cuero, 2015), and Loneliness as a Source of Creativity (Cuero, 2014). Also, he has two more books on creativity in preparation to be published, Scientific Invention: What it takes to invent, and Polishing Diamonds. Here are a few testimonials out of the many people that have been under the mentorship of Dr. Cuero, and are now successful creative individuals in different parts of the world.