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Nearly every product in your life is the result of creativity. Some things happened by chance like plastic, which was accidentally invented when chemist Leo Hendrick Baekeland was looking for a replacement to the imported insulator shellac. But most of the other stuff started out as nothing, then someone had an epiphany, or thought really hard on an idea, and hey-presto, a concept that formerly didn’t exist now does. Interestingly, it seems that our planet’s future is entirely tied to our ability to adapt and change. Meaning creativity isn’t just an interesting and somewhat healthy idea, as you’ll shortly see, but it’s also vital to our future.