Barry made me lunch, a perfectly delicious, home made vegetable soup with an avacoto salad. He needed a ride into charleston, so we got into my rental car. And all the while, he told stories from his basketball days,. recalling shots and scores and things people said as if it were yesterday. It takes courage to be good social, courage to be honest with yourself, to do things the right way. I know we've really only been talking about basketball, which is justa am in the end. But the lesson here is much bigger than that.
Wilt Chamberlain’s brilliant career was marred by one, deeply inexplicable decision: He chose a shooting technique that made him one of the worst foul shooters in basketball—even though he had tried a better alternative. Why do smart people do dumb things?
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