Go For It Or Go Home
You got to have BIG Ones to be an inventor. DREAMS !!! I was talking about BIG Dreams. What were you thinking? From that first light bulb moment when with astonishment you realized This Could Be Huge. Then throughout the grueling process of clawing your way to success an inventor has to maintain an extraordinary amount of faith, motivation and determination. There are no consolation prizes in this game. You either Go for it or Go home.
Let’s face it, it is next to impossible to keep up that kind of intensity forever. You will have set backs. You will encounter road blocks. There will be moments of self doubt, indecisions, loss of confidence and utter despair but You have got to pull yourself together to push your project forward to its’ ultimate triumph. How can you muster up the strength to do this? By listening to this months’ speaker.
John Rizvi is a Registered Patent Attorney, an Adjunct Professor of IP, the author of 2 books on the subject, the creator of The Patent Professor®, an educational video series, and TEDx speaker, but more than anything he is a man who knows how to set unbelievably high goals and achieve them.
When he graduated law school over 24 years ago he applied to Fish and Neave the most impressive patent law firm in the world. Their client list included the Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell and cases such as the near $1 billion Polaroid patent infringement case. To me, that is the definition of Going For It. When he was rejected, did he just go home with his tail between his legs? NO !!!
He called them up and gave them a piece of his mind. So when he saw the envelope from them in the mail he immediately thought, “Law Suit?” after all, he is primarily an attorney but to his surprise he was hired.
His private practice, www.ThePatentProfessor.com , is another Got For It or Go Home story that starts with his desire to work directly with Independent Inventors. Today, his law firm has a team of 60+ attorneys, engineers, designers, patent illustrators, and touts a former retired patent judge with over 20 years of experience deciding patent appeals as well as 3 former Patent office examiners on staff full-time to assist inventors.
We all can use some motivation.
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