The One Thing I Lack; Or rather, the one thing I lacking seek of the moment

I picked up a book yesterday to consider whether or not it was a good time to start reading it. The book is Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin. This was a book provided for us at the Classical Conversations Practicum several weeks ago. I started with the foreword, written by someone who saw fit to add his endorsement to a text he had reviewed, and read these words:

I was attracted immediately by the lucidity of his writing style and by the generosity of his mind.

I would very much like to know how I might obtain a generous mind, for I fear I do not possess one. Maybe if I read Climbing Parnassus someday, I may find out what the preface writer meant when he said that Tracy Lee Simmons has a generous mind .