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Name: Letters to a Young Athlete
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Author: Chris Bosh

Chris Bosh

An NBA Champion's Hard-Earned Wisdom on the Road to Self-Mastery

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Letters to a Young Athlete by Chris Bosh offers advice and inspiration for athletes at all levels. It emphasizes the importance of hard work, dedication, and mental toughness in achieving success both on and off the court.

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Letters to a Young Athlete
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What’s in it for me? Life wisdom from a basketball legend.

Basketball was Chris Bosh's life. As a kid, he’d play in his driveway long after the sun went down. By the end of his career, he’d won two NBA championships and a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.

Sadly, Bosh’s career ended in 2015. A doctor had identified a blood clot forming in his leg. If he were to continue playing, there was a chance the clot could break loose and get caught in his heart, lungs, or brain. He could even die on the court.

Forced into early retirement, Bosh reflected on his journey. What could he tell that young athlete, that kid playing basketball in the driveway? And what could he tell anyone who dreamed of greatness?

In these blinks, you’ll learn

why you must train past your limits;
why you must check your ego and commit to the team; and
how to handle winning and losing with equal grace.

To play past your limits, you must train past them.

The pass appeared effortless.

LeBron James tossed up a three-point shot in the final seconds of game six of the 2013 NBA Finals, Heat versus Spurs. The ball bounced from the rim. Bosh, the Heat’s center, was surrounded by Spurs players. He leaped up, snatched the ball, and within an instant, passed it to Ray Allen.

Allen, just as quickly, stepped behind the three-point line. With five Spurs players rushing to block, Allen took the shot. He made it.

The key message here is: To play beyond your present limits, you must train past them.

From Bosh to Allen, the play appeared effortless, despite the pressure of 20,000 screaming fans, millions of viewers, and the exhaustion resulting from over 80 games that season.

Bosh executed the pass automatically, instantly, because for decades he had trained himself to go beyond his perceived limits of physical and mental exhaustion.

Years of running suicide drills back and forth across the court had taught his burning lungs and screaming muscles to suck in oxygen and find that boost. He had learned, as ultramarathon runner and ex-Navy SEAL David Goggins says, that when you think you’re running on empty, you still have 40 percent left in the tank.

Bosh learned that he had to train past the limits of exhaustion because he was going to have to perform past the limits of exhaustion.

The life lesson here is that you need to always push yourself further than you think you can go. That doesn’t mean you should suppress the little voice in your head saying that you can't continue. In fact, It is precisely this awareness of being exhausted which you need to embrace. By doing so, you’ll slowly build the mental and physical strength you’ll need to progress beyond your limits and grow to embrace exhaustion.

Make no mistake – training in this way is brutally hard. But by pushing yourself to the limit, you’ll discover what comedian Jerry Seinfeld called “your blessing in life … the torture you’re most comfortable with.”

However, building your resilience in the face of exhaustion is just one side of the coin. To keep it strong over the course of a career, you’re going to need deep motivation, which is the topic of the next blink.

To strengthen your passion, combine it with a higher purpose.

Years before his professional career, Bosh played for his high school basketball team in southeastern Dallas, Texas. Bosh was always in the gym, running drills with his coach, Thomas Hill.

One day, Coach Hill stopped Bosh in the middle of his drills and looked him in the eyes. He asked Bosh what he wanted to do with this.

Ego is the enemy of improvement.

Chris Bosh was only 19 years old when, in 2003, he got drafted by the Toronto Raptors. Bosh – smart, fast, and nearly seven feet tall – had always been a star. But now, in the NBA, Bosh was going against teams full of stars whose fame greatly eclipsed his own.

At first, he struggled to get the ball, and when he did get it, his shots kept failing. His opponents ran over him. Bosh fell into despair and let his defense fall apart.

To build your team, lead by example and cultivate communication.

When Chris Bosh landed in Miami in 2010, he came to play alongside Dwayne Wade and LeBron James, two of the best to ever grace the game. The press called them the “Big Three”. Then, in 2012, Ray Allen joined the team, an event that propelled the team into the annals of NBA history.

But in the locker room, or in the huddle, there was another player the team would often look to for guidance. His name was Juwan Howard.

Don’t get too high from winning, or too low from losing.

In the first season of the Big Three, the Heat dominated the league. Bosh remembers how high he felt at the time. He was on one of the most talented teams ever assembled, and felt that the championship was as good as won.

Seneca, a Roman stoic philosopher, would have advised Bosh to cool down – and to avoid what he called “transports of delight.” As the famous intellectual said, “joy leads to exultation, and exultation leads to swaggering and excessive self-esteem.”

Value your health, your future, and your peace of mind.

LeBron James stretches.

James stretches when he gets up in the morning and before he goes to bed at night. He stretches before and after every workout, every practice, and every game. His stretching routine takes half an hour, and he’s known to do it almost at random. Even in the middle of a card game.

If you want to reach your potential, you’ve got to put in the work, whatever that may be.

Plenty of people show up to watch Stephen Curry play with the Golden State Warriors. Those in the know arrive early and check out Curry’s pregame routine, a 20-minute series of drills cycling through a wild variety of positions.

Curry executes a similar, but longer, series of drills after each practice, taking over 300 shots before he quits. Curry is arguably the best shooter in NBA history, and has been for years. Even if he scored fewer shots, no one would think less of him. He’s a legend.

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Worum geht es in Letters to a Young Athlete?

In Letters to a Young Athlete (2021), basketball legend Chris Bosh shares the wisdom he earned through his remarkable career. Bosh shows us that true excellence requires deep motivation, mastery of self, and a commitment to something far greater than money or fame.

Wer Letters to a Young Athlete lesen sollte

Young athletes
Their teachers, coaches, and parents
Anyone who wants to know what it takes to be a champion

Über den Autor

Chris Bosh is an NBA Hall of Famer, two-time NBA champion, eleven-time All-Star, and an Olympic gold medalist. A rare medical condition brought Bosh’s extraordinary basketball career to an abrupt halt at the age of 31, and he has since devoted himself to encouraging young people to read, code, and cultivate leadership qualities.

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