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Creative people, whether artists, musicians, designers, engineers, or business leaders, share several traits in common. Among them are a sense of curiosity, imagination, and an ability to see potential in serendipity discoveries.

Today, there is a stress on being utilitarian. If something is not immediately deemed useful, it’s considered wasteful. In an inciteful essay, Dr. Abraham Flexner, the first Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, argues that there is great value in so-called useless knowledge.