Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom · first published 1994
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Memoir of weekly conversations between the author and his dying former professor, Morrie, on life's meaning and how to live well. Readers value its warm, accessible reflections on mortality in a light, moving read.
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Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by American author Mitch Albom about a series of visits Albom made to his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz gradually dies of ALS. The book topped the New York Times Non-Fiction Best-Sellers List for 23 combined weeks in 2000, and remained on the New York Times best-selling list for more than four years after. In 2006, Tuesdays with Morrie was the bestselling memoir of all time.
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Listened to "Tuesdays with Morrie" [0] over the break, which is a series of interviews and reflections by the author as he interacts with his professor dying of ALS. That and "When Breath becomes Air" [1] are both pretty astounding long-form…
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on “Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?” ↗Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albon is a light-weight book with a genre of life-advice(I would not use the word self-help here). I think it would suit you.
on “Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?” ↗Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Alboom, really great book about life and everything brilliant about it.
on “Best book/paper you read in 2018?” ↗Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
on “Ask HN: What are the best non-fiction books?” ↗Tuesdays with Morrie
on “Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?” ↗I recommend "Tuesdays With Morrie" for a good why book. Either you value collaboration and the opinions of others, or you don't; there's not much that you can do to reason yourself into or out of it, since it's not really a rational…
on “Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?” ↗Meditation/Mindfulness might lead you to some more insight on this subject. It teaches to observe pain when it comes up rather than ignore it. The book Mindfulness In Plain English is pretty good. Or, Tuesdays with Morrie. Observe emotion, then let it go. To the scientific mind, mindfulness might seem hokey. I certainly thought so for years until I saw it promoted on HN with some scientific research backing its efficacy.…
on “The End of Reflection” ↗…From there, I spend a lot of my downtime acquiring alternate perspectives. I find Nietzsche ("Beyond Good And Evil") helpful to this end. (NOTE: I explicitly disavow and condemn Nietzsche's misogyny.) "Tuesdays With Morrie" is indispensable, in my opinion; specifically, Morrie's advice to embrace emotions. All of them. Allow yourself to be embroiled in your feelings, until it finds its natural conclusion. Then practice…
on “Beyond Smart” ↗...other feel-good books from terminals. ie, "Tuesdays with Morrie". Remember that? Yeah, me neither... I did read "Tuesdays with Morrie" and I remember it well. It was NOT written by a "terminal", but by his student, Mitch Albom, a wonderful sports writer for the…
on “Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer” ↗…the peak of their careers — but we can give back to society. In doing so, we increase the resonance of the gift that was given. Often, the role of the receiver is simply to receive. On the other hand, Tuesdays with Morrie is a book that speaks to a gentler form of directly giving back to elders as they age.
on “Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?” ↗Tuesdays with Morrie is also a good read on this topic.
on “Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer” ↗…Newport The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person - Hugh Prather Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom I Heart Logs: Event Data, Stream Processing, and Data Integration - Jay Kreps Kafka: The Definitive Guide - Neha Narkhede Effective Java - Joshua Bloch Algorithms - Robert Sedgewick,…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗…read the following since then. 1. 1984 by Orwell 2. Animal Farm by Orwell 3. 40 Rules of Love by Elif Shafak 4. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 5. The Man in the high castle by Philip k Dic 6. Tuesdays with morrie by Mitch Albom 7. Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie 8. The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell 9. Veronica Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho 10. The Little Prince by antoine saint exupery 11. A Monster calls…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗I don't know what else to say. I have no reason to listen to what this guy is saying or give it more value than any of the other feel-good books from terminals. ie, "Tuesdays with Morrie". Remember that? Yeah, me neither. The value of these books seems specious, too. Probably because all humans are afraid of dying unless they can delude themselves to go to church. He gives off this whole…
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