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"It isn't happy accidents-It's a state of mind I'd like to tell the story of a paradox: How do we bring the right people to the right place at the right time to discover something new, when we don't know who or where or when that is, let alone what it is we're looking for? This is the paradox of innovation: If so many discoveries - from penicillin to plastics - are the product of serendipity, why do we insist breakthroughs can somehow be planned? Why not embrace serendipity instead? Because here's an example of what happens when you don't."