What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking
from some of the most inventive people of all times-the ancient
Greeks When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are
still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE,
they changed the world with astonishing inventions-democracy, the
alphabet, philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematical proof, rational
medicine, coins, architectural canons, drama, lifelike sculpture,
and competitive athletics. None of this happened by accident.
Recognizing the power of the new and trying to understand and
promote the conditions that make it possible, the Greeks were the
first to write about innovation and even the first to record a word
for forging something new. In short, the Greeks "invented"
innovation itself-and they still have a great deal to teach us
about it. How to Innovate is an engaging and entertaining
introduction to key ideas about-and examples of-innovation and
creative thinking from ancient Greece. Armand D'Angour provides
lively new translations of selections from Aristotle, Diodorus, and
Athenaeus, with the original Greek text on facing pages. These
writings illuminate and illustrate timeless principles of creating
something new-borrowing or adapting existing ideas or things,
cross-fertilizing disparate elements, or criticizing and disrupting
current conditions. From the true story of Archimedes's famous
"Eureka!" moment, to Aristotle's thoughts on physical change and
political innovation, to accounts of how disruption and competition
drove invention in Greek warfare and the visual arts, How to
Innovate is filled with valuable insights about how change
happens-and how to bring it about.
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