Twelfth Night
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Josh Brolin | SmartLess
Podcast: SmartLessI did this play, I did Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in high school! I didn't understand a word I was saying! And I... and until there was an audience!
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyIn the book, you said you think the game, and when I read that, it was interesting to me. I've sat down with so many athletes on the show and behind the scenes as well, but I'd never really heard anyone say it that way.
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyI played football, I mean, I was on my AAU basketball team; I think I talk about this in the book, and everybody on my team was on varsity except for me, right? And so I was a little bit slower, right, than some of the other guys.
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyYeah, that work was just obvious through your grandfather who just lived it every day, and I'm—when you took the kids back to see the service station and the space, that part of the book is really special because you reminded me.
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyThe part in the book that really got me was when—not because I don't have kids yet and me and my wife have been together for around 10 years now, and we moved from London to New York to LA and now we live in LA.
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyThere's so many lessons in the book that you learned from your grandpa, and I think people should read the book to learn the depth of it.
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyI want them to read the book, but I also want them to listen to the audiobook because I did the audiobook so they can actually hear my voice.
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyNot the end because the end is the hard part, but yeah, the journey is tough because in the immediate reaction, oh yeah, like I said in the book, I had some family members who were going to handle it themselves.
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyLike it's such a beautiful honoring of a person that you loved, and I've never, I don't think I've ever read a memoir that felt like an honoring of someone else.
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyAnd even the name, like I remember when the book first came on my desk, and I was trying to figure out, like, I didn't get the physical version but the digital version when it first came to me, I was like, 'Oh, 61, interesting.'
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyAnd what's crazy is in the book, I think I said something about one of his favorite scriptures being Philippians 4:13, 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,' and that video I just found when he's standing up thanking everybody for coming to his birthday thing, he says that.
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyJust for everyone who's listening, Chris's whole book is about what his granddad told him off the court, which applies on the court, and then on the court lessons that play off the court, right?
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyYou know, I gotta talk about in the book, the craziest thing, probably one of the craziest things in my career was that injury in Houston when I got hurt and we were a game away from going to the NBA Finals.
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyNo, just the appreciation for this and being able to talk and tell my story through the book, and I hope people can really feel that it was really about that.
- Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyBecause like I said in the book, my dad spent his entire 401k on me and my brother playing travel basketball.