Motivation Daily by Motiversity - MAMBA MENTALITY - Kobe Bryant Motivational Speech

Episode Date: November 14, 2022

Mamba Mentality: Rest at the end not at the middle. Get to work. One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever by Kobe Bryant.Special thanks to Lewis Howes from School of Greatness.Speaker:Kobe Bryant Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I said, I better get to work. Rest at the end, not in the middle. And that's something I always live by. I'm not going to rest. I'm going to keep on pushing out. There are a lot of answers that I don't have. or even questions that I don't have. I'm just going to keep going.

I'm just going to keep going, and I'll figure these things out as you go, right? And you just continue to build that way. So I try to live by that all the time. Have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never, ever rest in the middle. I came into the NBA. I was like, they just do is really don't work that hard.

One of the things I would do is why everybody would be at the cafeteria and work, you know, eating and doing all sorts of stuff, I'd just go back to the job. I just go back to the job. How can I show you that no, I have the age? Well, you do it through training. Right?

So when I get up in the morning, my daughter goes with me. 4 a.m.? My 15-year-old goes with me. She goes with me before school, and it becomes a daddy-daughter thing. That's cool. Through that process, she understands the value of hard work. And so it's through those behaviors is where I find the motivation. I think the definition of greatness is to inspire the people next to you.

I think that's what greatness is or should do. It's not something that lives and dies with one person. It's how can you inspire a person to then in turn inspire another person that then inspires another person? And that's how you create something that I think lasts for it. It's not sit around and all, it's all happy or lucky type of thing. The leader is to get the best out of it. You've got to deal with it.

Face it, learn from it. It's exciting when you win. It's exciting when you lose because the process should be exactly the same. But the hardest thing is to face. face that stuff. But what if today is the day that you, that's it, now what you do? What can I say? Mom by hour. My parents were great. You know, growing up, you know, they instilled in me the importance of imagination, of curiosity, understanding that, okay, if you want to accomplish something,

I'm not just going to sit here and say, yes, you can do whatever you want. Yes, you can, but you have to also put it in the work to get there. Right. So they taught me that at a really early age, man. And when you grow up as a kid thinking that the world is your oyster, all things are possible if you put in the work to do it, you grew up having that fundamental belief. Who was more influential for you, your father and father? Both were influential at different points. My mom was there on a daily basis. My father was really influential at a really critical time where I had a summer where I played basketball when I was like 10 or 11 years old and here I come playing and I don't score one point the entire summer not one you

didn't score once not one were you in the game I was in the game how did you not score because that was terrible not a free throw not a nothing not a lucky shot not a breakaway lay up zero points and I remember crying about it being upset about it my father's getting me a hug and said listen whether you score zero score 60 I'm gonna love you no matter well that is the most important thing that you can say to the child Because from there, I was like, okay, it gives me all the confidence in the world to feel. I have the security there. But the hell with that, I'm scoring 60.

Let's go. Right, right. And from there, I just went to work. I just stayed with it. I kept practicing, kept practicing. I think that's when the idea of understanding a long-term view became important. Because I wasn't going to catch these kids in a week. I wasn't going to catch them a year.

So that's when I sat down and said, okay, this is going to take some thought. Right. What I want to work on first? All right, shooting. All right, let's knock this out. Let's focus on this half a year, six months. You've nothing but shoot. After that, all right, creating your own shot.

So I started creating a menu of things. When I came back to the next summer, I was a little bit better. Then 14 came around, back half of 13, 14 years old. And then I was just killing everyone. And it happened in two years. And I wasn't expected to happen in two years, but it did because what I had to do was work on the basics and the fundamentals. But they relied on their athleticism and their natural ability.

And because I stick to the fundamentals, it just caught up to me. And then my body, you know, my knees stopped hurting. I grew into my frame. Then your athleticism, once you have the fundamentals, the hard work, the mindset, and you tack on the athletic, it's game. Then it was game. Wow. The love of the game, the challenge.

Like, I would watch Magic play. I'd watch Michael play. And I would see them do these unbelievable. things and I say you know can I get to that level I don't know but let's find out let's find out and so that curiosity to see where I could push this thing let me down that path I think with the 13th pick in the 1996 NBA draft the Charlotte Hornet select Kobe Bryant from Lower Marion High School in Pennsylvania greatness lies ahead to this young man well I learned that you have to work hard you have to work hard

You have to approach the game with a serious mindset. There was a stretch in 03 where Shaq was out with an injury. Phil called me up to his office and said, okay, we need you to really turn on the afterburners and start scoring a lot if you have to win. So I did and I wound up scoring, I think it was nine straight games for 40 plus points. Nine straight? Nine straight games. And then Shaq comes back second to the last game with that. And then Phil called her in two.

opposite, so cold. Okay, I need you to dial it back. I'm like, why? Like, we're winning. I don't understand. It's because our goal is to win a championship. But if you continue to do this, we'll lose Shaq. We'll lose him. His motivation, his excitement. What triggers him, right? So I need you to pull back so we can pull Shaq forward for June. Wow. I mean, that was the big challenge. As you move from, you know, being the single dominant player to understand, okay, I have to help these other guys. Oh, I lift everyone else up. It's tough.

It's more like you put yourself to the side, and you put yourself in their shoes and understand what they're feeling. And then you have to make certain decisions of, okay, what buttons do I need to push for this player to get them to the next level? So it's not sit around and all, it's all happy or lucky time. The leader, your job is to get the best out of it, even if they may not like it at their time. He was very demanding because he expected everyone to put in the same effort as he was. And that was unrealistic.

You're not behind me, you're not in front of me. You're right there. You're right there parallel with you. Practice was very competitive right away. You know how Kobe is. He was joined. We had it gone sometimes. He didn't let me slip a lot.

Times where I get ejected or I'm about to get a technical foul or going off the deep end, he would be there to, you know, set me straight. a lot which helped me a lot. So we get into the timeout he's like hey hey I'm open like okay so we go out and same thing coming hey hey I'm open okay there you go come back in hey dude you got throwing me the ball said man fuck that get it off the rebound if I miss bro. Listen I don't I don't deal with people that don't commit at that level but then act as if they do. The running joke or he doesn't pass and all sort of crap man that's okay you know but i'll take those

five rings i'll take five of them