Key insights from
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
By Mitch Albom
What you'll learn
A successful but dissatisfied sports journalist, Mitch Albom, reunites with his former teacher of 16 years, a retired sociology professor on the brink of death named Morrie Schwartz. Over a series of Tuesday meetings, they rekindle their teacher-student relationship and friendship. While suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease, Morrie dedicates his final days to teaching Albom about the nature of love, the meaning of death, and how to be “fully human.” As Albom sees it, Tuesdays with Morrie is his last thesis paper for Morrie course, where he recounts their friendship and the lessons Morrie has modeled. With nearly 18 million copies sold in 48 languages, Tuesdays with Morrie is one of the best-selling memoirs of all time.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 On your deathbed, allow yourself a few tears of self-pity—then make yourself useful.
- 2 Wealth comes when you give, though it comes in unexpected forms.
- 3 If culture values the wrong things, create your own culture.
- 4 Forgiveness helps us make peace with the living—and the dead.
- 5 To govern your emotions, let them penetrate you.
- 6 Death cannot kill relationships.
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