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

Episode Date: February 12, 2024

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The mama mentality simply means trying to be the best version of yourself. That's what the mentality means. It means every day you're trying to become better. When you have a dream, the one thing you have to watch out for are those out there that will try to crush your dream. I once had a guidance counselor tell me that I shouldn't play. basketball that it would never amount to anything for me that's good the black baba strikes again one of the NBA's all-time greats

hey Ryan there it is jobs not finished job finish I don't think so if we want to get to that elite level we really have to put in the work day in and day out this man played with the broken finger and won a championship game I play games with the flu. I play games with a 102 degree fever man. Brian has not sat tonight. He is literally on his last leg right now. When the game is more important than the injury itself, you don't feel that damn injury. Every time I step on a basketball court, I'm going to put a strong effort out there on the floor. I'm not going to leave anything on the floor.

You have some toughness that you need to get in there and get the job done. Are you getting better every single day? That's the question. The key factor for me was wasn't whether or not I was ready. It was the fact that if that if I wasn't ready, I was determined to figure out how to get ready. At the end of every day, you look yourself in the mirror and you ask yourself, did I get better today? So I challenge you to have your dream, go after it with all you have, and be legendary in your own right.

My name is Kobe Bryant. Don't you ever forget it? It's a great feeling to know that you set a goal and you were able to reach that goal and to knock it down. Those times when you get up early and you work hard, Those times when you stay up late and you work hard, those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway. That is actually the dream. That's the dream. It's not the destination.

It's the journey. And if you guys can understand that, then what you'll see happen is that you won't accomplish your dreams. Your dreams won't come true. Something greater will. It's an amazing thing about passion. If you love something, if you have a strong passion for something, you would go to the extreme to try to understand or try to get it. Whatever you have a love for, if you have to walk, you would go get it.

If you have to beg someone, you would go. I don't think you guys understand how present you guys were with me. You know, you guys were there with me at 5.30 in the morning when I was running the track and I was midway through my workout, and I didn't know if I could make it through. And I thought about the expectations you guys have for me and you have for our team. And it pushed me through.

It got me through those eight-hundredths, and four-hundredths, and one-hundredths at 5.30 in the morning, so I thank you. We're not on this stage just because of talent or ability. We're up here because of 4 a.8.m., we're up here because of 2 a days, or 5 a days. We're up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way.

If anything tried to bring us down, we used it to make us strong. We were never satisfied, never finished, will never be retired. My high school English teacher, Mr. Fisk, he had this beautiful quote, and it read, rest at the end, not in the middle. And I took that to heart. I believe there's time for resting at the end, but for me, that time is not now. Thank you for this tremendous honor to acknowledge you my basketball career, but I'm far from done.

Our next dream is to be honored one day for inspiring the next generation of athletes to have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never ever rest in the middle. Rest at the end, not in the middle. Where does that come from? If you guys can understand that. You guys so much, I love you. If you're failing, you'll have the pressure on yourself to play, you know, to capitulate to that fear. If you play with a sense of I want to win, I want to win, then you have the fear of what happens if you don't. But if you find common ground in the middle, in the center,

then it doesn't matter. You're in phase by either, right? That enables you to really just stay in the moment, stay connected to it, and not feel anything other than what's in front of you. So, you know, I try to just be dead center. Start with what do you want your game to be? What would make your game most unstoppable or hard to deal with? And now you work backwards from there, and you start building it one piece at a time, one move at a time,

one counter at a time. Who would Shaq be if you had your work ethic? He'd be the greatest of all time. If Shack had your work. They'd be the greatest of all time. For sure. He'd be the first to tell you that. For sure.

I mean, this guy was a force. Like, I have never seen. I mean, it was crazy. You know, a guy at that size, generally guys at that size are a little timid and they don't want to be tall. They don't want to be big. Man, this dude was, he did not care. He was mean.

He was nasty. He was compelled. He was vindictive. I mean, he was, yeah, I wish he was in a gym. I would have had in 12 rings He had the work ethic. My God, yeah We ain't be close If you're lazy man, I don't want to talk to you. I want to deal with you. You don't make me feel dumber You know, you're gonna lower my level. I don't think so. You can go over there There's plenty of teams in here where you'll fit right in

I don't I don't deal with people that don't commit at that level but then act as if they do I don't deal with that I don't it's real shit I mean listen so like we we used to getting this stuff all the time because it was like you know he would say okay Kobe's not throwing me the ball media would take it and run with it and all so the stuff and I'm like well bro if you were in shape by the time I run down on a fast break and run back and then run down you're still coming down the first time bro like what the hell do you want me to do right so a lot of our contention came from that came from

that and even though he was older you were still confronted him you didn't you didn't care oh i didn't care man they won bro from day one i knew for sure Rick fox my teammates they all thought I was absolutely crazy the day me and Shaq got in the fist fight after that day they were like okay Kobe you're certifiable uh uh this fight oh yeah Yeah, I'm not backing down. Listen, either you want to whip my ass or we want to have a night, but you know, there's a, there's a level of respect. And for Shaq, too, by the way, I know he's told me that that day was a big turning point for him because it was like, you know, he's generally used to talking trash and saying what he wants and nobody really stepping up and challenging him on that. And when he saw me challenge him on that, he was like, this kid's crazy. All right, I can win with that.

You know, and so that's kind of the beginning of our relationship, I think. That's probably never happened to him. That's probably not something that's common to him. No. I mean, he's seven feet tall since my three years old or something, right? There's all, this is all coming back to me right now. It's also a game in Phoenix. My first year, we were playing.

He kept posting up, but they kept fouling him. So he kept going in the free throw the line and kept missing him. And so he threw the ball out to me. I'm not throwing that in there. So I kept shooting him, right? So we getting to Tom Mountain. He's like, hey, hey, hey, I'm open. I'm like, okay.

And so we go out and same thing. Come, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm open. Okay. Come back in. Hey, dude, you got throwing me the ball. I said, man, fuck that. Get it off the rebound if I miss, bro. You told them this.

First year. 18 years old, man, 18 years old. I must have been out of my damn mind. The story continues. The story continues. So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's a failure on Monday is if you decide to not progress from that. Right. So to me, that's why failure is not existing.

Because, you know, if I fail today, okay, I'm going to learn something from that failure and I'm going to try again on Tuesday. Those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired. to push yourself but you do it anyway. That's the dream. It's not the destination, it's the journey. The day could be today that your career is over. Now what you do? 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. There are even questions that I don't have. I'm just going to keep going. It's going to keep going to keep going. going and I'll figure these things out as you go right and you just continue to build that way so

that I try to live by that all the time have a dream sacrifice for it and never ever rest in the middle and I came into the NBA I was like they just do is really don't root that hard one of the things I would do is everybody would be at the cafeteria work you know eating and doing all sort of stuff I just go back to you though how can I show you that no I have the edge well you do it through training Right, so when I get up in the morning, my daughter goes with me. 4 a.m.? 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 heart 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 be. It's not something that lives and dies with one person. It's how can you inspire a person to then inspire another person or then inspires another person?

And that's how you create something that I think lasts for a bit. It's not sit around and all, it's all happy to lucky type of thing. The leader is your job 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 that stuff.

But what if today is the day that you... That's it. Now what you do? Can I say, mom by out. My parents were great. Growing up, 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. 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 mother? Both were influential at different points. Yeah.

Right. 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 around like 10 or 11 years old. And here I come playing. And I don't score at 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 I was terrible. Not a free throw, not a nothing, not a lucky shot, not a breakaway lay up zero points. I remember crying about it and being upset about it. My father's getting me a hug and say, listen, whether you score zero or score 60, I'm going to love you no matter of war.

Wow. Now that is the most important thing that you can say to each other. Because from there, I was like, okay, that gives me all the confidence in the world to fail. 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 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 a year. So that's when I sat down and said, okay, this is going to take some thought. All right, we don't want to work on first.

All right, shooting. All right, let's knock this out. Let's focus on this half a year. a year, six months, do nothing but shoot. After that, all right, creating your own shot. So I started creating a menu of things. When I came back the next summer, I was a little bit better. And 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 is work on the basics and the fundamentals. But they relied on their athleticism and their natural ability. And because I stick to the fundamentals, they just caught up to me.

And then my body, you know, my knees stopped hurting. I grew into my frame. And then your athleticism, once you have the fundamentals, the hard work, the mindset, and you tack on the athletic, it's game over and 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'd 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 Hornets 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 and you have to push the game with a serious mindset. There was a stretch. in 03 where Shaq was out with an injury and Phil called me up to his office and said, okay, we need you to really turn on the afterburners and start scoring a lot free after the end. 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 into his office. So it's cold, okay, I need you to download back. I'm like, why? Like, we're winning. I don't understand. 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. That was the big challenge. As you move from, you know, being the single dominant player to understanding, 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 never, 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. It was very demanding because he expected everyone 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 me. Practice was very competitive right away.

You know how Kobe is. He was drawing, we had it going sometimes. He didn't let me slip a lot. Times where I get ejected or 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 out a lot. So we get into Tom Mountain, he's like, hey, hey, I'm open. Like, okay.

So we go out and say, thing, come, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm open. Okay, there you go. Come back in. Hey, dude, you got to throw me the ball. I said, man, fuck that. Get it off the rebound if I miss, bro. Listen, I don't deal with people that don't commit at that level, but then act as if they do.

The running joke, doesn't pass and all. I said, crap. Man, that's okay, you know, but I'll take those five. I'll take five. You really want me on the team. What's your approach to recruit me? You want first place come play with me. You want second place to go somewhere else.

Like, I would watch Magic play. I'd watch Michael play. And I would see them do these unbelievable things. And I'd say, you know, can I get to that level? I don't know, but let's find out. That's why he's the best player in the day. Everything was done to try to try to try to do. to learn how to become a better basketball player.

Everything. Everything. And so when you have that point of view, then literally the world becomes your library to help you to become better at your craft. So because you know what you want, the world's given you exactly the information. 100% because you know what you're looking for. So many guys tell stories about your work ethic. What was really your work ethic like and for how long did you stay disciplined?

Well, I mean, every day. I mean, since, you know, for 20 years. It was an everyday process in trying to figure out strengths and weaknesses. For example, jumping ability. My vertical was a 40, it wasn't a 46 or a 45. My hands are big, but they're not massive. So you've got to figure out ways to strengthen them. So your hands are strong enough to be able to palm a ball

and do the things that you need to do. Quickness, I was quick, but not insanely quick. I was fast, but not ridiculously fast. Right? So I had to rely on skill a lot more. I had to rely on angles a lot more. I had to study the game a lot more. But I enjoyed it, though.

So from the time I can remember when I started watching the game, I studied the game, and it just never changed. It's a good separation for me, you know, emotionally, to be able to put myself in a place where at practice or when I'm training or during games, I switch my mind to something else. I switch my mode into something. else, right? For me it's the equivalent of Maximus, Desmus, Meridius, and Gladiator picking up the dirt,

smelling the dirt, it's go time. Right? So that was my mental switch. It was like an actor getting ready for a film. You got to put yourself in that cage. When you're in that cage, you are that character. And then when you leave there, it's something completely different. But when I'm in that cage, bro, don't touch me. Don't talk to me. Leave me alone. How did you get mentally and emotionally so strong where it doesn't bother you? Well, you know, you got to look at the reality of the situation. You know, like for me, it's not, you know, you kind of got to get over yourself. It's not about you, man.

Like, okay, you feel embarrassed. You're not that important. Like, get over yourself. That's where you go. Get over yourself, right? Like, you're worried about how people may perceive you, and, like, you're walking around, and it's embarrassing because you shot five airballs. get over yourself, right? And then after that it's okay, well why did those airballs happen?

Got it. High school year before, we played 35 games, max, right? Week in between, spaced out, plenty of time to rest. In the NBA, it's back to back to back to back to back to back, to back. I didn't have the legs. So you look at the shot, every shot was online, every shot was online, but every shot was short. Right? I got to get stronger. I got to train differently. The weight training program that I'm doing, I got to tailor it for an 82 game season so that when the playoffs come around, my legs are stronger and that ball gets there. So I look at it with rationale and say, okay, well, the reason why I shot air ball is because my legs aren't there. I got all, next year they'll be there. That was it. Done. Done. Were there

some names that you looked at and says, these three guys are as crazy as I am? I do. At the time, I deal with what I've referred to as goat mountain. I went to goat mountain and I talked to Magic Michael, Bird, Keem Olajuwon, Jerry West, Oscar Robinson, Bill Russell. So I would talk to them. What did you do? What were your experiences? Michael in particular, has become my big brother. It's been my big brother since I first came in the league. And what was that process like? So I went to them and started understanding the ends and outs of the game. and you know how they approach things and their level of detail and obsessiveness and that's what i did the players that had that passion but weren't willing to commit their entire lives to doing that

right it's a choice right you have other things you have family you have all these other things that you have to do the game can't really be your number one priority and so i just looking at that like man Man, this is going to be fun. If I'm buddies with you from high school, if I'm a cousin of yours, what happened to our relationship? How did that gravitate when you went into the league and you're determined to become the greatest? You're determined to become one of the greatest. What happens to our relationship? Well, it suffers.

It does suffer. Oh, yeah. Okay. And you understood that. You were okay with that. Yeah. And the people that love you, like friends and family, like they know that about you. Got it.

So they let you be you. And when you reconvene, you know, you pick back up where you left off. But make no mistake about it, everything in between is lost. Right. So those long-term relationships, the commitment of time of, you know, taking vacu-like, I see a lot of players take vacations with other players that are close friends. And just take vacations, just to take vacations or just hang out, just to hang out. Like, I'm not, I never did that.

Why didn't you do that? Well, because when I retire, I didn't want to have to say, I wish I would have done more. I don't want that. You know, I don't want that. You got a lot of people playing their hard-on money to come watch you perform. Perform. It's your job to be in shape. It's your job to be strong enough to perform at that level every single night.

And as a competitor, I'm not, I'm not ducking shit in. Like it's not, oh my God, my back hurts, I'm sore, we gotta play Vince Carter and Toronto Raptors tonight. We actually had this happen. We had a game against Toronto in 2000. And Vince was tearing the league up. My back was jacked, jacked. But like the perception of that, like what? Kobe's missing a game against Toronto and Vince Carter because my back was really spasming.

But people would be like, what? Oh, he's duck and Vince. Excuse me? No, I don't think so. So I would be in a layup line like, okay, there's a lot of days where, you know, you can rest and recover. Today ain't one of them. You're back and bother you any other day. That shit ain't bothering me today.

We're going to have to see me today. Amen. Yeah. If you're looking at a big investments you've got to make, what is the decision-making process there? Do you call? Is there first you do your own research? this much time you call an advisor is there a system you know it's pretty pretty simple for me it's do you understand the business is it a business that you can help in some form or fashion

what are the barriers entry to that business and then the entrepreneurs themselves the company itself right do they have a culture that you believe is sustainable are these leaders people that you believe in are they people that are obsessives and in turn have they created a culture of obsessiveness. So I tend to look at those four factors and that's it. That's big right there by the way. I don't know if you guys caught that right there. That's pretty massive right there. Same determination. What's your current work schedule look like today? It's different because I personally am not writing every word of the novels. I am not animating the films. What I have to do now is make sure that the people that

that we bring in, these obsessives that we bring in, are challenging themselves to do the best job that they think they can do. That's what I'm there for, is for them to constantly look in the mirror and self-assess and challenge themselves. If we have a project and you're saying, okay, I can do that, that's not the project we want. The projects that say, I don't know if I can animate that,

I don't know how to write that story, to do that, Those are the things we want because through that curiosity you'll reach a level that you didn't think was possible And so running the studio that's what I'm doing You're playing against the Golden State Warriors Score is 107 109 You guys are close to getting into the playoffs You know exactly what happens in the game you go up You're about to take your shot and then all of a sudden

boom Achilles happens right he went in here hit the free throws and then you walked off the stage. Yeah. You got the surgery got. When I went in the trainer's room, my kids are in there, and they're looking at you and stuff. And I'm looking at them, and I'm like, you know, it's all right.

It's all right. It'll be fine. It'll be all right. It'll be all right. As a parent, you've got to set the example. You got to set the example. This is another obstacle. This obstacle cannot define me.

It's not going to cripple me. It's not going to be responsible for me stepping away for the game that I love. I'm going to step away on my own terms. And that's when the decision was made that, you know what? I'm doing it. Doing it. You're a freaking beast, man.

Yeah, hey. Winning is not about the trophy and the accolades. It's about the grind. It's about the obstacles. It's about the challenges. It's about the pain. The reason I know so much about winning is because I've had to deal with so much losing. Everybody wants to win, but in order to know how to win, you've got to know how to lose,

because you're going to lose more than you're going to win. But what are you gained from it? You've trained some of the greatest of the greats, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Charles Barkley, Dwayne Wade. So you know something about winning. You know something about sustained winning over time. your mind has to immediately shift back because now you felt it tasted something that you can only get through winning. Are you willing to do it again? And that was one of Kobe's favorite words when it related to winning.

He says you have to be obsessed with whatever your win is. Be all in. Three greatest lessons I learned from Michael. competing, accountability, and then winning at all levels. Winning all levels, what does that mean? You just don't win in one arena. You win in your sports, you win in business, you win in your personal life. Other people win because you win.

It isn't just about you. It's about being able to pull the team and show them what it feels like to win. This isn't about playing basketball like Michael Jordan did, like the late great Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade. This is about having the mindset to win. When you fail, your feelings, your mind makes you more resilient. You look at when Kobe, his first playoff series, he had this horrible game, but he shot like four or five straight airballs. Now, he could have came back next year and said, I got to prove everybody that's a man, you're too young, why'd you take? No, he was just like, you know what?

That's on me. I have to own that moment. Now, I got to prove to myself I can overconfidence because now everybody else is doubting me, but I can't doubt myself. Everybody told MJ, don't go to North Carolina. You'll never play. You shouldn't be here. And Michael went out, he said, I don't need to prove. to coach. I don't need to prove to buzz. I need to prove to myself that I belong here.

I always say you can have fear, but you can't have doubt. When I was working with my professional athletes, it required me to do a lot of traveling. And this story gets me every time. So when people say, it didn't hurt, it still hurts. I was packing for a trip. My daughter walks into her room. She says, Daddy, why do you travel so much? Sweetheart, this is I provide for the family. This is how I take care of you and mom. This is how I put food on the table. She looks at me, says, Daddy, if I eat less,

will you stay home more? Now people would think in a fairy tale, or most people would say, I unpack my suitcase, I'm not going to take this trip. Let's go grab some ice cream or let's go out. I kept hacking. I had to send an example for her early of what it meant to work and what you have to leave behind sometimes

in order to pursue what's unique to you. I wanted her to understand this is who I am. And I want to send an example for you. I had a conversation with her later on to tell her why I did all those things. In the middle of the conversation, she stopped. I get it. I understand.

She saw the results. She saw how it brought us closer together. She understood my dedication to my craft and what it took to excel and what it took to be different. And what it took to stand by unpopular decisions knowing that every successful person that I've met, that I've met, every successful person that I know had to make those decisions over and over again. There are things that are going to have to take a backseat. You're going to have to leave a lot of things behind. The hardest thing with Kobe was getting him to stop. Yeah, okay, take a break, rest. Yes. Take the day off. That was the most challenging thing

with him, because over all the years that he had his success, it was about go, go, go. And then when I came on, I was to complete, I said, go, I got to get you to stop. His 3 a.m. workouts, they're crazy. Crazy. You know, having to keep the Staple Center open later because he wasn't happy the way he performed at that game. And I would not leave till he would leave. Really?

Yeah, so we would be in the arena sometimes 2, 3 o'clock in the morning. Shut up. All the lights are turned off except on the court and we just keep going. We just keep going. What is the mindset of winning? They both had that. So I look at it, I look at it three ways. So you have individuals that compete.

You know a lot of people that compete. You know, we all know how to compete. Everybody knows how to, how to compete. You don't forget how to compete. We just decide not to anymore. But a lot of people compete just to finish. Then there's individuals that win. But they only win one time.

It's easy to win and then never win again. And then there's people that win and winning. You can't come back the same. Cannot come back the same. You have to come back different. You have to come back better. Winning wants you to be different. Winning requires you to do different things.

Winning requires you to think in a different way. Winning speaks its own language. Winning has its own way of recognizing you. Winning wants you to write your own story. Stop looking for steps. Those steps are infinite. Find your own path to winning. Because as the late great Kobe Bryant said, winning is everything. Interested people, watch obsessed people change the world. Kobe Bryant was not interested in winning championships. He was obsessed. If you really have an obsession to figure it out, you will figure it out.

Look in the mirror. Motherf- is you versus you. An obsession comes in the small details that nobody pays attention to. Because our obsessions become our possessions. You hear this all the time. Don't sweat the small stuff. The one percenters, the 0.01, they sweat every single detail. I'm obsessed with it.

A winner bus. You obsess about most regular that you will eventually possess in your life. You have to be obsessive. You have to be obsessive. You have to be addicted. You have to be disciplined. The key there is you. Winning requires you to be different and different scarce people.

It's never enough. Nothing great is going to come without you having to deal with adversity and pain tolerance. The price you will pay for not winning is infinitely greater than the price you will ever pay to win. It's everything, and it's in the details. If I can do it, why can't think? You've got to fight like hell. And if you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it. It's the ones that can fight, the ones that come back, those are the ones that succeed.

Those are the icons. Paradise starts in hell. And if you simply clap to that thing that you want. Fluff and ball with greatness, you earn greatness. I don't care how you get their goals to win, period. Different scares. And anytime anybody's told me I'm crazy, I've always thanked them for that. Because it gave me the ability to see and do things that other people can't do

and acknowledge things that other people won't acknowledge. If you're obsessed with taking your business, your sport whatever it is to another level stand-up you must be able to deal with pain and the more understanding you have of what's causing you the pain and how you've dealt with it is going to determine how successful you will be in whatever you choose in life it's on you your failure and your success is on you I think the thing that people misunderstand about success is they're looking for the easiest way to get there. Look at the most successful people in the world.

They're the most coaching. They have the least amount of doubt. They're the least amount of doubt. You usually have doubt because of what somebody else is going to think of you. So there are people that aren't going to see your vision. People didn't see Jeff Bezos's vision. Right. We won't see Elon Musk.

We won't see Kobe and Jordan's vision. And that's okay, but you've got to be willing to see it in yourself. Everyone's going to hit adversity. It's how you deal with that adversity. And the key word is you. Not letting somebody else deal with that adversity. You have to deal with that adversity. And how you deal with it, are you going to fight through it or are you going to curl up

and just roll over into the corner? People talk about this all the time. losing Bill's character how much character do you need the thoughts better be so big that they better scare you they better scare you

because you're not thinking big enough that you don't want it. It has to be something that nobody else has thought about before or done before the process it takes to be number one and stay number one

you have no idea very few people people understand what winning and success does to individuals mental health. Everybody wants to sit in your seat until they have to sit in your seat. Special individual, and there's very few people that can do that. I always say this the most driven individuals. They live a life years and certain times without balance. Everybody strives for balance, balance, balance.

And in order to be that obsessed with something over and over again, there is going to be times where things are going to be out of balance. It just is. The best at something and try to balance everything else around your life. You don't find balance. You create it. And it's different for every individual out there. The balance I've created may be completely different than the balance you've created. And there's certain times in your life that the scales are definitely going to be weighing towards one side more than the other.

In early part of Kobe's career, it was about basketball and winning. About basketball and winning. And towards the end of his career, it became less about winning. It was still about basketball. And it became more on spending time with the family. But you have to surround yourself with people. You have to surround yourself with people with individuals that would be selfish for you. They understand your obsession.

They understand your drive. They understand your attention to detail. Make sure you're all in. Your obligation to yourself to be the best, to achieve the highest level, has to be greater. The pressure you put on yourself has to exceed anybody else's pressure that puts on you. You've got to start with it. It's a mindset. Before you have an exceptional skill set, you have to have the right mindset. You have to have a great mindset. Stronger your mindset is, the greater your skill set is going to be. They got to want it. It's what fuels you. What's fueling that desire? Individuals that can control it, harness it, acknowledge it, know how to use it. It takes it. It takes. them to a completely different level.

All of you. Everybody can handle pressure. You know what? Most people decide not to. Why is it worth it? Because the results are so good. Yeah, my best.