You're listening to the Impact Theory Podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable techniques from the world's highest achievers.

Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory. You're here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you actually execute on your dreams.

Today's episode is a little bit different than normal. It was shot at Peter Diamandis's Abundance 360, which is an incredible gathering of some of the world's most profound thinkers to look at the state of technology and where humanity is going to be in the future.

And it brought through some people that we've been trying to get on the show, but for scheduling reasons haven't been able to, so we took advantage.

Alright, today's guest is one of the most accomplished inventors in U.S. history. He has over 440 patents to his name, and he started inventing when he was just 5 years old.

And by the time he graduated high school, his inventions were netting him roughly $60,000 a year, which was more than both of his parents made combined.

While still in college, he founded his first company called AutoSerange, which made cutting-edge medical equipment, including the first wearable insulin pump for diabetics.

The company was so successful, he was able to sell it to Baxter International and then create Decker Research and Development, a company that was designed from the ground up to foster innovation and generate creative breakthroughs on a grand scale.

He and his team at Decker have already revolutionized several industries, including human transportation, healthcare, and biotics.

They've created such game-changing technologies as the advanced prosthetics used by DARPA, the HydroFlex, surgical irrigation pump, the Crown Stent, which has saved millions of lives, and the first home dialysis machine, as well as a water filtration device that can turn the world's filthiest water into safe, clean drinking water.

They've also created such ubiquitous staples as the Ibot Mobility device, which is the world's most advanced wheelchair and the Safeway.

He was also recently granted a $300 million contract to begin work on regenerative medicine, and for this insane list of accomplishments, he was inducted into the inventor's Hall of Fame in 2005, awarded the National Medal of Technology, presented by President Bill Clinton, the Lemelson MIT Prize, and in 2011, he was named the Laureate of the Franklin Institute in Mechanical Engineering.

So please help me in welcoming the founder and chief enthusiast of first, which serves hundreds of thousands of kids ages six to eighteen in more than 60 countries around the world.

The college dropout who is now a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Dean Cayman.

Dean, thank you so much for joining me today.

This has been, for me at least, this has been an interview that I've been hounding Peter to help put together for a very long time, and it is an honor to be sitting here with you.

Your accomplishments are just astonishing, but what I find far more interesting about you is the way that you bring humanity into it, and that collision to me is really, really interesting.

And I want to start earlier today, actually, when you and I met for the first time, you quoted Einstein and you were talking about how he said knowledge is less important than imagination.

So why is it that you think imagination is more important? And what does that really mean?

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