Book · 2007 · Biography & Autobiography
Tuesdays with Morrie
An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 25th Anniversary Edition
Why people recommend it
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a bestselling memoir chronicling the profound life lessons shared between a dying college professor and his former student. David Perell brought up the book on How I Write while discussing successful storytelling and memorable memoir formats. Bill Browder appeared on the same podcast to describe how giving a copy of the book to his future wife during their courtship played a pivotal role in warming her heart and helping him navigate early relationship challenges. Mitch Albom also joined Perell as a guest, reflecting on his original modest intentions for the book, which was initially meant merely to help pay his old professor's medical bills rather than become a massive commercial success. Albom detailed his writing process, noting that he consulted accounts of people dying, struggled extensively with the opening lines by rewriting them roughly twenty times, and explained how the compact physical format of the original publication ultimately defined the design of his subsequent books.
Who recommended it
- Mitch Albom Discussed
- David Perell Discussed
- Bill Browder Discussed
Mitch Albom — 5 mentions
“to write a book called Tuesdays with my not supposed to be any kind of big book and it wasn't supposed to do anything other than pay medical bills for my old college professor.”
“when I sat down to write Tuesdays with my I I remember going out and getting a bunch of books about death and that that people had written accounts of people dying”
“And that's why Tuesdays with my is as small as it is. That's why and then when Tuesdays with my became this surprise success, now all my books are that size.”
“with Tuesdays with my I wrote the beginning probably 20 times and I kept turning in and no, I'll give you another one.”
“because I guess Tuesdays with my (Morrie) you know obviously deals with that theme so many times and then so many of the other things that I've written about or about loss or dying.”
David Perell — 3 mentions
“Do you know that is? He wrote a book called Tuesdays with Morrie. yeah, yeah.”
“So, let's talk about that chapter in Red Notice, Tuesdays with my right, where you meet your wife and you're like, I don't know, does she like me? Does she not? She's sort of there as you're giving the speech and then Tuesdays with my was just actually three words from that chapter.”
“And then there's Tuesdays with my [music] think at one point was the bestselling memoir of all time.”
Bill Browder — 1 mention
“and it just so happened that I was able to distinguish myself through a series of challenges challenging situations in the courtship by giving her a copy of Tuesdays with my that's what warmed her heart after you know a few false starts and and various other other you know sort of ch problems along the way”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I had you had Mitch Albom on the show, who wrote Tuesdays with Morrie. And um it's so funny that the two of you are so similar.”