Socrates' Way: Seven Master Keys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost

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Summary: Inspirational, involving, rewarding reading
Review: Socrates' Way: Seven: Master Keys To Using Your Mind To The Utmost by Ronald Gross is a marvelous and unique "self-help" book that draws on the wisdom of the philosophical genius Socrates himself. Centering on seven great precepts espoused by this wise man, ranging from "Know Thyself"; to "Speak the Truth"; and "Strengthen Your Soul," Socrates' Way is an inspirational, involving, rewarding reading and a superbly presented reading for anyone seeking personal or professional self-improvement.

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Summary: The Shape of a Conversation
Review: Stimulating conversation is hard to find. -- and how to stimulate it when you're part of a group is a valuable thing to know. Ron Gross teaches you how -- he gives us many insights into how to explore the minds of others in order to deepen our own knowledge and understanding - of just about anything! His wonderful book is not a quick read; it makes you stop and think...and then then some more...

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Summary: A well-intended but boring book
Review: Too didactic, I'd say; I didn't finish it -- though there's nothing wrong with the book on the surface of it, other than its being very, very boring and pedantic... I can't quite put my finger on it. One would probably do better simply by reading Plato. Reminds me of rhetoric manuals: everything is correct there and laid out in good order and profoundly explicated, but can you really learn to argue well from it? Same for grammar books... you really learn to write by reading a lot and writing a lot, not by memorizing scientific terminology and explicit rules.