Side Hustle Show 239, how to cultivate creativity like an inventor.

What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here, welcome to the Side Hustle Show because you can be a creator or a consumer, but it's the creators that get paid.

I've argued that creativity is the most important skill for entrepreneurs

because before you can sell something, you've got to create that value proposition.

The problem is, what if you're not creative and honestly this was me for almost 20 years?

You've probably heard the argument that our education system

systematically stamps out or suppresses creativity in kids and I actually think there's some truth to that.

Still I think we all have this innate creative spirit whether or not it's visible

right now. It's just a matter of exercising that muscle and perhaps

redefining what creativity means to you. To help school me on this I invited a couple

inventors on the program because who's more creative than an inventor right?

They're literally making ideas and products

or nothing existed before.

So in this episode, you're gonna meet Stosh Stanley

from Stosh sports. com, actually spelled stash,

stasch, stasch. She holds six patents all related to products in the baseball and softball

world and in footwear safety. And she's done all this on the side from her day job at the

University of Virginia. You're also going to meet David Fiedewa, a serial

inventor who's taken the product licensing route described by Stephen Key in

episode 173 to earn passive royalty income from his product ideas and he's actually done so well

that Stephen has brought him on to be an inventor mentor at inventright.com.

So stick around to here how they come up with their ideas, how to unleash the creativity inside your own head, and ultimately what to do with those ideas once you have them.

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