2018-10-30
1 小时 4 分钟My guest today is Mitch albom.
When most people hear his name, they think of him as the author of the book Tuesdays with Maury, which came out some 21 years ago and really became a part of the culture, sold a tremendous amount of copies and influenced a lot of conversations, and began to awaken people to the idea of asking bigger questions about life.
In those intervening 21 years, he has written a number of books, spoken around the world, become a philanthropist, and served in so many different ways.
And he's got a new book out now, which is actually 15 years after he came out with a book called the five people you meet in heaven.
This is the sequel to that book, and it's called the next person you meet in heaven.
And I had an opportunity to sit down with Mitch and have a really wide ranging conversation where we wove in a bit about what this new book is about and how it ties in with the earlier one, but really went much deeper into who he is as an artist, as a creator, the things that inspired him in life, the risks that he took, the openness to serendipity, what motivates him, where his muse comes from, how he sees a sort of seamless relationship between music and writing, how he found his way into a job that taught him how to write in the very early days and actually worked for free for the first six months, or what we call air quotes free.
And how that has informed everything that he's done since then.
Really excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
God, I was singing to mass, like, 2021 years since Maury first came out.
21 years.
Yeah.
On the eve now, literally, of your latest book, your journey, just like the way you've navigated your life, has kind of fascinated me.
It seems like on the one hand, you've gone from this to this to this, but then when you really look at your deep interests and passions, the way they've sort of fed into your life, it feels like it's more like a yes end, and then you're adding things rather than moving from one to another.
Like way back.
Seems like very early days, it was all about music for you.
Yes.
Yeah.
If you go back to my music days, it kind of all starts to make sense.
You just started the sports writing days.