Make sure you get my good side, which is, like, all of this.
I think the biggest thing that people need to know, in this world,
is that there is no limit, right?
We always hear the saying "The sky's the limit."
How many times have you been told:
"You can do whatever you want, the sky is the limit!"
"You can get there!"
Well, I think that's a load of BS.
Sitting here saying, "the sky's the limit"
well, we have footprints on the Moon,
we have Felix Baumgartner skydiving from space.
Now tell me the sky's the limit.
When I was four months old,
I contracted a rare form of meningitis called meningococcal septicaemia.
What it did was it attacked my bloodstream so all the blood in my body stopped.
The doctors had to find where,
amputate my left hand, my legs and some fingers on the right.
Everyone always says to me "Oh my gosh Shayne!
You're so incredible, you're so strong, you're so amazing!
You have such a big heart, You have a great heart."
And really my answer to that always is, you know
I got it from my mama!
My mom not only did all this, but she did it on her own.
My dad split, alright, so my mom really was
mom, dad, taxi driver, you know, basketball coach, hockey coach.
My mom was everything.
I've got to do some really cool things.
Out of 60,000 kids, I was chosen at 12 years old
to have lunch with Nelson Mandela.
At 25, probably the greatest experience I'll ever have in my entire life
came at 12 years old!
When I looked at Nelson Mandela and I said: "Mister Mandela,
Sir, it's an honor for me to meet you."
And he looks down at me and he puts his hand on my shoulder
and Nelson Mandela replies to me:
"No my child, it's an honor that I got to share a meal with you."
I played basketball for about 17 years.
Hum, I played on the junior national team in Canada.
And it's a very proud thing for me to be able to say
I am the only player with half a hand to do that in history.
So for me that's really cool to say.
I played basketball in a gym called Variety Village in Toronto
and it's a sports and training facility for people with all kinds of challenges...
and not. So it's a training facility for everybody.
And I was there to promote them. And afterwards everyone came up to me
at 8 years olds, and said: "You should really do this for a living,
you're really good at it." Then I gave another one
and another one and now at 25 I run a speaking company.
Hum, my favorite exercise that I run with the kids
when I do my speaking is I'd get them to tell me something
that they love to do
So you know I'm gonna, I'm gonna do it with you.
Give me anything that you love to do. "Sing"
Are you the best at it? "Yes, I am."
Louder. "Yes, I am!"
I quickly tell them Well, now, you know
Imagine if we were all to decide that we were the best at something on a daily basis
How powerful and incredible this building would be?
Always. And then I don't exclude myself from it.
So I tell them, you know Best one-handed wheelchair
basketball player in the world. I think, I do.
I believe that that's me.
Rap. I think I'm the best white disabled Jewish rapper
in the world. I'm gonna say that too.
"Great detail" Right? Right?!
I mean, I go even farther than that. This is where I really like to connect
with them. I tell them that you know, the only reason why
Channing Tatum won sexiest man in the world
is 'cos the people that write the articles haven't met me yet.
I think that 96% of women fall in love with me
within 5 minutes of meeting me.
But I quickly change that and say
Of all these women, why it's so easy for them
to fall in love with me is because I'm in love with me.
And that's where it starts, right? As soon as you can love
who you are, like truly love who you are
it is very easy for other people to love you, right?