Mitch Albom

And, you know, really, even if you get one, sometimes you don't learn anything.

Well, I wasn't wrestling with it as much as being a byproduct of it, to be honest with you, Tanya, because I am kind of a walking example of a second chance.

Many things in my life I did in the first part of my life.

that would have set the pattern for maybe a whole different second half.

And then things happened, and I ended up getting different opportunities.

And I watched how you can sort of bifurcate your life if certain things happen.

And I thought, well, I've got experience in sort of a second act.

Maybe I can work it into a book.

A hundred percent, yeah.

That probably is the—if my life were a graph, that would be the point where you put the—

The pencil in and you start drawing the line the other direction because it was a huge pivot for me.

I didn't realize it at the time, but I had been extremely ambitious, extremely kind of singularly focused on becoming, you know, the best sports writer ever.

that there could be the most well-known.

I was on ESPN.

I did a column that was nationally syndicated across the country.

I did radio.

I was going 100 miles an hour and 100 hours a week.

And I happened to see my old college professor, Maury Schwartz,

on Nightline, I just was flipping the channels, and he was talking to Ted Koppel about what it was like to die from Lou Gehrig's disease.

And that was the first I found out that he had this disease.