Coming up with new ideas requires a dash of chaos along with your perfect recipe. Ruth Wakefield invented chocolate chip cookies when she ran out of baking chocolate. She had to substitute with chunks of a semisweet chocolate bar. Frank Epperson created the Popsicle by accidentally leaving his soda-making equipment out on the porch.
A lot of my more interesting ideas came about because I had too little time to do things correctly or I broke something and had to fix it.
Unfortunately, we can’t force chaos into our lives. In fact, we probably don’t want to force chaos into our lives. It can be pretty stressful. When this stress occurs naturally, you can use it as an opportunity to exercise your ingenuity.