Podcast: On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Episode: NBA Star Chris Paul ON: How To Build Resilience & Overcome Societal Pressures
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"In 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."
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Buy on Amazon"One of the things that comes through in your book is you talk so much about hard work, confidence, you know, seeing your own potential when no one else sees it, being able to bet on yourself, having that confidence."
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"I 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."
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"Yeah, 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."
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"The 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."
Emma
Buy on Amazon"Because I think people look at you, and even when I read your book, I was just thinking, you're working really hard at basketball, you're really working hard at your family, you're working hard at being a dad; I'm like this guy works hard on every area of his life like there's not… so you try to, you're trying to. Yeah."
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"There'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."
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"I 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."
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"Not 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."
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"Like 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."
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"And 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.'"
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"And 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."
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"Just 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?"
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"You 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."
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"No, 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."
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"Because like I said in the book, my dad spent his entire 401k on me and my brother playing travel basketball."