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b'One of the more surprising lessons I\\u2019ve learned as an ambitious person is that perhaps the best recipe for success is... keeping your ego in check. For a long time, I subconsciously believed that you needed to be unremittingly selfish to \\u201cmake it.\\u201d But after life delivered me repeated beat-downs, I finally got the message: sometimes what\\u2019s best for me is to focus on greater good -- on the team. It\\u2019s enlightened self-interest. (For the record, I am not perfect at this.) My guest today has also learned this lesson the hard way.\\xa0\\nChris Bosh is an 11-time NBA All-Star, an Olympic gold medalist, and he was just recently inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. He says his proudest moments as a player came from defeating his own ego, and you\\u2019ll hear him explain how he learned to do this. You\\u2019ll also hear him talk about something that anyone who\\u2019s ever been born needs to learn how to do (given that we live in a universe where impermanence is a nonnegotiable fact): letting go. In 2016, Chris nearly died from a blood clotting illness that sidelined him. He spent the next couple of years trying to make his way back to the NBA before retiring in 2019. He\\u2019s just written a new book, in which he tells his story and compiles some hard-won wisdom. It\\u2019s called Letters to a Young Athlete. But you don\\u2019t have to be an athlete to benefit; it\\u2019s really for anyone who\\u2019s interested in excellence.\\xa0\\nIn this conversation, Chris and I talk about the difficult process of letting go of something you love; the in\\u2019s and out\\u2019s of his journey with his own ego, both during and after his playing career; how to set aside the inner chatter in your mind in order to be in the present moment; and how to play every game\\u2013whatever that might mean to you\\u2013like it\\u2019s your last.\\nBefore we dive in, I also want to let you know about a special series of episodes we\\u2019ll be launching next week here on the podcast. It\\u2019s called \\u201cTaming Anxiety.\\u201d It will\\xa0feature interviews with top anxiety researchers and a dynamite meditation teacher. And, as is our wont here in TPH-land, we\\u2019ll be launching a free companion meditation challenge on the Ten Percent Happier app to help you put everything you learn in the podcast series into practice in your daily life -- to integrate it into your neurons, as I like to say.\\xa0\\nGet ready to join the free challenge on June 21 by downloading the Ten Percent Happier app today: https://10percenthappier.app.link/install\\nFull Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/chris-bosh-353\\n\\nSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.'