Chris Bosh | Letters to a Young Athlete
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
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🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the thing you’ve loved since you were a kid, the thing that led you to become an 11-time NBA All-star, and two-time champion, playing alongside the best in the world, comes to a cataclysmic end at the age of 31? Leaving you to figure out what to do with the rest of your life?
That is exactly what happened to this week’s guest, Chris Bosh. He fell in love with basketball at an early age and earned the prestigious “Mr. Basketball” title while still in high school in Dallas, Texas. A year into college, Chris was drafted to the Toronto Raptors, where he played for 7 years, before joining the Miami Heat and winning two championships. But, a handful of years into his time in Miami, he was having trouble breathing and found himself in the hospital with blood clots in his lungs. A year later, the clots returned in his leg, officially ending his career, and launching him into an exploration of who he was, beyond the sport that had defined much of his life and his career. Chris shared many of his awakenings in his new memoir, Letters to a Young Athlete (https://amzn.to/3wrUfi4).
You can find Chris at:
Website : https://www.chrisbosh.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/chrisbosh/
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| 0:00.0 | So what happens when the thing that you've loved since you were a kid? |
| 0:08.9 | The thing that eventually would lead you to become an 11 time NBA All-Star and two time |
| 0:14.7 | champion playing alongside the best in the world? |
| 0:18.5 | What happens when that comes to a cataclysmic end at the age of 31? |
| 0:24.3 | Leaving you to figure out not only what to do with the rest of your life, but who you |
| 0:28.3 | are. |
| 0:29.5 | That is exactly what happened to my guest this week, Chris Bosh. |
| 0:33.2 | He fell in love with basketball at an early age and even earned the prestigious Mr. |
| 0:38.2 | Basketball title while still in high school in Dallas, Texas. |
| 0:41.6 | A year into college, Chris entered the draft and ended up on the Toronto Raptors where |
| 0:48.2 | he played for seven years before joining the Miami Heat and winning two championships. |
| 0:53.4 | But a handful of years into his time in Miami, he was having trouble breathing and found |
| 0:58.8 | himself in the hospital with blood clots in his lungs. |
| 1:02.5 | A year later, the clots returned to his leg, officially ending his career and leading |
| 1:08.5 | to a season of reckoning and reimagining, launching him into an exploration of who he was |
| 1:15.8 | beyond the sport that had defined so much of his life and career. |
| 1:21.2 | Chris shares many of the awakenings and insights and stories in his great new memoir Letters |
| 1:27.4 | to a young athlete and we go deep into some of the early moments of awakening and then exploring |
| 1:35.5 | in his career, what do you do when the thing that has defined so much of who you are and |
| 1:41.6 | how you move through the world and earns your living and supports your family when it just |
| 1:46.0 | magically goes away? |
| 1:47.4 | How do you change and re-identify who you are in the world and what you're here to do? |
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