How to Innovate

An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking

By: Aristotle, Armand D'Angour - translator contributor

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

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. 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.

©2021 Armand D’Angour (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

one of the better ones from the series

the reading and audio levels were good and material was very good that he chose from and the commentary was appropriate

A great piece of material

An outstanding compilation of the work of one of the worlds greatest thinkers. It is very nicely put together and the intonations and the inflections are professional and made the listening enjoyable. I highly recommend this book.