In the book, you talk about that classic eureka narrative of archimedes. And we're not actually a hundred % sure that the story of hiron and the crown and archimedes getting into the bath is close to what happened. But in order for any of those mechanisms to be put into action, you need to arrange the conditions. Conditions could be social conditions or they could be about freedom to experiment tey,. Could be about ability to communicate your ideas. Or theye could be individual conditions. One of the individual conditions, it seems to me, that helps people to innovate is e is er, getting in the floe - michal cheeksant mackay
Armand D’Angour is a professor of classics at the University of Oxford and the author of several books including Socrates in Love and his latest, How To Innovate. In this episode we discuss:- The 3 different types of innovation and how to use them to your advantage - How the Greeks thought about change and what we can learn from them- The relationship between innovation and ethicsWe also cover the true story behind Archimedes’ famous “Eureka!” moment and Aristotle’s thoughts on political innovation.