almost speaks to the current moment through the lens of basketball because for those who don't know chris bosh lives and like that, your doctor said, hey, chris, you cannot play this game anymore because you may lose your life. tell us a little bit about what it was like to hear that, how hard it was for you to believe and understand that and go through the stages of grief, and then what you learned post that. >> it was very difficult. like i told you before, basketball was everything to me, so to hear the fact that i can't play anymore at a time when i'm trying to redefine myself as one of the top players in the world, it just couldn't be. at that time, it just couldn't be. but one thing i learned through basketball is that you have to keep going, regardless of the circumstances. we can't control what happens to us, right. those are things that are out of our control, but what i can control is what my reaction is going to be to that the environment. >> trevor: definitely. >> how i'm going to get up the next day and say, i don't know what i'm doing, i don't know what's going to happen, but i k

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i want to bring in chris bosh.e is a entrepreneur, a writer, music executive and by the way, a two-time nba champion set to be inducted into the hall of fame. and he has a brand-new book. it's called "letters to a young athlete." it just came out about a week ago. mr. bosh, thanks for your time this morning, sir. >> thanks for having me. i appreciate being here. >> back during march madness this year you wrote a piece. it was called, it's madness we don't pay college athletes. you wrote in part, i still remember trying to figure out how to get groceries when we didn't have the money to buy them or when we didn't have a car we could use to get to the store. can you walk us through more about what your experience was as a college athlete and how the ncaa rules against profiting off yourself affected you personally? >> well, of course. the first thing that i love doing is to describe the usual day for a student athlete. that usually entails weight training, practicing with your team, going to your classes and mandator

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but a young, young chris bosh. what would you have said to yourself knowing what you know now?s nothing that you can do to change the challenges coming ahead. if you are aspiring to do something great or even just something, there will be obstacles that will come. there will be situations that you cannot control. but the things you can control is your attitude, your work ethic and really your dedication to your craft. and those are the things that i would tell my younger self. and those are the things i tell younger athletes and really everyone as well. i try to encourage people to know that, yeah, it might get hard. it probably will get hard. when it does you have to have the proper tools to continue to keep going. so those are the things. and one of my favorite words with that is perseverance. if you work on your perseverance, you'll be able to rise to the occasion when that moment of truth comes. but first, you have to continue to work. you have to continue to practice. and, really, you have to continue to believe in yourself and know that you're going to make it happen when

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