Innovation happens near the cusp or critical point or phase state change.

But the tendency of many whole systems, of many kinds, is motion toward homeostasis, even if elements within are chaotic. Supply meets demand, boy meets girl, oxygen meets fire, wasps meet aphids and a fired cannonball meets the earth. They both need each other - and in meeting become equilibrium.

That's why we need unbalanced people. You can't be a genius unless something's missing ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken