I am reading a book called “What is this thing called Theory of Constraint?” by Eli Goldratt. Eli Goldratt shot to fame with the book called “The Goal”. It is a book about the manufacturing industry in a novel format. I must have read it in 1997 or something. I loved the book as it was the first book about manufacturing which was written in a novel format.

In this book, “What is this thing called Theory of Constraint” he says, the novel became a best seller because he used the Socratic method in his dialogues. He said, this kind of narrative, made the readers feel they were solving the problems, faced by the protagonist on the factory floor. The readers were always thinking a couple of steps ahead of the author. He says, he never intended to use the Socratic method, but somehow the novel had this style.