How to Speak How to Listen, Mortimer J. Adler
How to Speak How to Listen, Mortimer J. Adler
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How to Speak How to Listen

Author: Mortimer J. Adler

Narrator: Harold N. Cropp

Unabridged: 8 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/12/2021


Synopsis

From the author of the bestselling How to Read a Book comes a comprehensive and practical guide for learning how to speak and listen more effectively.

With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book.

In How to Speak How to Listen, Adler explains the fundamental principles of communicating through speech, with sections on such specialized presentations as the sales talk, the lecture, and question-and-answer sessions and advice on effective listening and learning by discussion.

About Mortimer J. Adler

Dr. Mortimer J. Adler was Chairman of the Board of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, Honorary Trustee of the Aspen Institute, and authored more than fifty books. He died in 2001.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon

Listen to How I Speak would have been the better title for Adler's didactic abortion How to Speak, How to Listen. A book that styles itself as a how to speak and listen, there is very little content of this kind. Instead, Adler moralizes ad nauseum on a completely different problem: why it is import......more

Goodreads review by Paul

I read this book just before I joined university. It instructs one how to make a good speech. I vied for class rep using the ideas from this book and won by a landslide. Adler also breaks down some of the great speeches like Mark Anthony's 'Friends, Romans, Countrymen' speech in Shakespeare's 'Julius......more

Goodreads review by Ahmad

The book 'How To Speak and How to Listen' doesn't live up to it's promise. Its a good book for sure, and the initial part of the book looks very promising. But much of the points that have been elaborated in the author's earlier and more widely-read work, 'How to Read A Book' is being reiterated onc......more

Goodreads review by Justin

“How to Speak How to Listen” was an excellent book that challenges one to listen and not simply hear. “Listening”, like reading is an art that has rules and can greatly benefit an individual who is seeking understanding. “Speaking” is also considered in Adler’s book and he gives practical advice th......more