Maxwell Pearce
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317 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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So the constant confrontation with my coaches was always robbing me of my creativity.
I learned that there was a seriousness in respecting the quality of the game.
Whether it was basketball, football, baseball or cross country, all of my coaches emphasized honoring and respecting the essence of their sport.
And that meant taking every drill and every exercise seriously and not doing anything that will challenge the traditional way of doing things.
This is exactly what led my high school coach to telling me to stop trying to dunk the basketball.
But ironically, it was my playfulness that got me to this point in my career.
So here's where I've landed today, and this is what I'm so excited to share with you all.
Play is the most important ingredient in every person and every industry's evolution.
I am an athlete and an artist, and I have witnessed how play can break rules to improve both of these worlds that I live in.
So just imagine if play, creativity and a little bit of rule-breaking
was in every industry.
There once was a time in basketball where dunking was frowned upon so much that the NCAA banned it for nine years.
Once that ban was lifted, the popularity of the game skyrocketed.
This context reminds me of my coaches yelling at me to stick to the fundamentals, all because I decided or had the audacity to try and dunk the ball one time.
Thankfully, I didn't listen to them, and I got more and more comfortable with it.
And over time, I was able to land my first dunk contest.
With a lot of work, I was able to build a global reputation for dunking the basketball.
I began to experiment with the boundaries of this.
I would incorporate things that we didn't normally associate with dunking, like with a dog, or catching a baseball, or catching the ball without looking from someone else who's not looking.
Every time I approached this with a playful mindset, I was rewarded, not only with advancing the game, but also with the opportunities that I dreamed of as a kid.
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