I mean , that was beautifully said and I appreciate you taking the time to go through my whole origin story , which has a lot of crazy turns in it . Um But I think all writers tend to have that typical uh yearning to like be creative in a way that makes sense of like their past that sometimes is odd and sort of different . But uh yeah , this new book is one that I wrote , you know , kind of after feeling like I think the world needed a little bit of hope and inspiration and positivity because , uh , we all know there's plenty of bad things that happen out there .
Well , I think I could write one of these books and as a , you know , that kind of athlete mentality kicked in of like , well , if I think I can do something and I don't do it then that's on me . So then I just started writing it and , you know , here we are . So , um so , well , you already got the basketball star thing out of the way I feel like , so now you can be like a writer like , oh , you can be , you are , which is incredible .
Uh And he sort of had this belief in me and um I just sort of felt like I owed it to him to like , try and help others maybe don't , you know , aren't as lucky to have met someone so powerful and so inspirational . Um But I also just feel like , more simply writing books takes so long and it's such a , like a long arduous process that if you're gonna spend years of your life writing something , it should be something you're , like , really passionate about . You know , and like , I think , I mean , maybe that's just me and other authors don't feel the same , but I know , like , I don't think I'll ever write a book that I don't feel like has some real world application to .
Yeah . You wrote two books in four years . Yes .
I mean , uh , Bonnie Ver was like a , a big artist . I listened to a lot while writing this book . Uh Michael Kuna , I love him .
