The first book I reviewed on this site was Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina and while this book I’ll review is not considered of self-help, it does teach something profound, perhaps something that self-help ‘gurus’ have no knowledge over. It is a non-fiction and written by Mitch Albom, an acclaimed writer for the Detroit Press. I believe Albom is a great example of a man who got know himself better through another human being. Something that all of us, if we are lucky and intelligent enough, will experience at some point in our lives.

There is a good reason why ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ has sold near 10 million copies in the United States alone and several more million around the world (The book has been printed in 40 territories and 42 languages), and on top of that it is been considered the best-selling memoir of all time. The reason, I believe, is that it is celebrates the life of a beautiful being who faces death, and yet, for him, it was not the end, but the beginning of a new process. His death sentence, was not the end, it was the beginning. I should also mention that it was Morrie’s story that inspired to begin asking questions like “What is close to your heart?”, “What does really matter to you?”,and so on. Read the whole story »