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Summary Of Morrie 's Greatest Quality

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Morrie’s greatest quality was “generativity, or the desire to help and mentor younger persons” which, “may be the most critical variable for achieving ego integrity” (Hooyman & Kiyak, 2011, p. 217). Morrie had always helped others because he was a teacher; however, he went above and beyond teaching as he mentored individuals and created a vast number of friends throughout his life. His final desire to perpetuate the acts of his life by having a book written demonstrate his willingness to continue giving and reiterate the success of his life’s review.
Even though wisdom is difficult to define, most people have general idea of what wisdom entails (Hooyman, N.R. & Kiyak, H. A.,2011). Morrie Schwartz was a wise individual. Throughout his conversations with Mitch Albom, he never actually tells him things directly instead guides him with his talks of past experiences to generate responses from him. He does the same with others never tells anyone what to do, rather makes comments to guide others to make the right choices. Mitch’s memories of Morrie’s teachings revolved around “being human and relating to others” (Abom, 1997, p. 17). Overall, Morrie demonstrated both factual and procedural knowledge as well as life-span contextualism and value relativism, which, put together define wisdom.
Reflecting on his death, Morrie also managed uncertainty; he knew he could not change his inevitable death so he not only accepted it but embraced it. Morrie discussed the process of his near

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