Is Socrates the Model of the Contrarian?

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In order to truly innovate, we do need those contrarian thinkers. Socrates strikes me as a very disruptive character and somebody who was critical in all parts of society. The word disrupt the word contrarion, is now sort of banded around everywhere. And especiallyin sort of silican valley te culture, it's almost, sort of lost its meaning. I want to bring in socrates actually, because i was going to pull on the thread of disruption which you talk about as one of the mechanisms of innovation.

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.