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How do you use your strengths in your job? Inventing requires understanding problems and then creating, visualizing and building solutions, which sometimes takes a very long time. Inventing equals change and generally, people and institutions don't like to change. Bringing about change, which is what I do, is a very challenging process. It takes tenacity.

What was your biggest learning challenge in school? I learn best by physically doing things, going beyond the abstraction of books and experiencing education directly. For example, I did not fall in Love with physics until I put down the books and began applying the laws of Physics to real objects.

What motivates you to go to work? Creating the future. For the past four years I have been focused on inventing new technology to produce high power density, cheap, renewable energy.

Every job has specific skills. What do you need in yours? I view creativity as a skill, an art form. I try not to let knowledge limit my creative possibilities. If I only did what is known I would be continuously re-inventing the same wheel. What I don't know has great value to me. I am fortunate that I know very little, and therefore, I don't realize what I can't do.