How important do you think it is in any sphere to have a sort of a basic, basic understanding of a field? Do you think that we've lost that in modernity? I'm not saying it's not possible. There will always be people who actually want to know more about what happened in history and so on.
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.