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Copies are also available from the book’s publisher, Deep Vellum, and from booksellers worldwide. If you like what you read, a limited number of copies are available from our online store, shipping directly from our Berlin Workshop – where the author will sign and personalize each purchase. The excerpt selected here reflects the moment our fellow 032c teammate received the insight that would become the tip-off in a new quarter of Anderson’s life. “It’s about what happens after you visit the oracle, then try to put it into practice,” he says, referring at once to the ancient Greek Oracle of Delphi – where the Temple of Apollo is inscribed with the cosmic command to “know thyself” – and to Oracle Arena, named for the American computer technology corporation that sponsored the author’s home team’s stadium. After the Oracle is the document of this struggle, and the result of a desire to share its lessons with others. The Warriors “had been terrible for my whole childhood,” recalls Anderson, until an ambitious new strategy “miraculously started a dynasty and changed the game of basketball.” Charting the massive shift in NBA fortunes inspired the writer to use the same methods to turn his own life around. Based on the 032c managing editor’s experience with healing, crisis, and self-actualization, the new book distills personal memories, basketball history, and a lifetime of Golden State Warriors fandom into a practical guide for enlightened living based on the Northern California team’s four core values: joy, mindfulness, compassion and competition. Shane Anderson’s recently released After the Oracle, or: How the Golden State Warriors’ Four Core Values Can Change Your Life Like They Changed Mine is part sports analysis, part confessional memoir, part self-help manual.

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