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The James Altucher Show

307 - Kareem Abdul Jabbar: Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Society & Culture, Talk Radio, Writer, Philosophy, Comedy, Chess, How To, Entrepreneurship, Jay, James, The James Altucher Show, Altucher, Author, Jay Yow, Education, Jay The Engineer, Business, James Altucher

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

NBA’s all-time leading scorer? Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Six-time NBA champion? Kareem Abdul Jabbar. 50 years of athleticism. THAT’S peak performance. Then he combined his career with activism, philanthropy (President Obama awarded him with “The...

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.4

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

0:10.4

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:15.0

We'll be your advice to someone who's young and seeking to find their identity as well.

0:20.6

Because we're all sort of young and empty in the beginning.

0:22.6

We're empty vessels in the beginning.

0:24.4

The strongest message I can impart is that knowledge is power.

0:28.6

So find out about what your future could be and figure out what you want to do to get to that future.

0:36.0

Seek out all the knowledge that you can to figure out what motivates you and then pursue those things.

0:42.0

And for every individual that might be a different goal, a different issue.

0:46.8

But every individual has a unique spark and we have to find what that is and what it leads us to.

0:54.0

And if we can do that, we'll find our path.

0:56.0

It's the one that we choose, the one that makes sense to us as individuals.

1:07.8

So very excited to have cream Abdul Jbar.

1:12.6

Cream, welcome to the podcast.

1:15.4

Thank you very much. Nice to be here.

1:16.8

You know, I always have to sort of an intro with the obvious unfortunately, which is you're probably one of the...

1:21.8

I mean, you definitely are one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

1:25.0

You have the record of most points scored in your career.

1:28.2

You played 20 seasons.

1:29.6

You were, you know, your team was the champion for so many years.

1:35.2

I don't know how many records you have broken in basketball that still haven't been...

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