INSANE WORK ETHIC - Kobe Bryant Motivational Video

As a team leader, it is also your responsibility to lift up the rest of the guys. You have to make them emotionally want to be better. You want, you have to get them into an emotional space where they wake up every morning motivated to be the best. version of themselves and in practice for me it was an opportunity to push them to challenge them and this is where you have to know your teammates because if it's late, you just had a back-to-back practice the next day, you come in guys, no I don't have I want to go through the motions.

I don't feel like practicing. It's important to know each and every one of them individually because then you know which nerve to hit and if the practice is more intense and difficult than a game seven, then it will be the game. seven will be easy, but if it's not, that's when the teams start forming images. I think the best way to prove your value is to

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, learn, absorb, be a sponge. You always want to develop your potential as hard as you think. you can

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, you can work harder than that and that's what I tried to do when I first came into the league, but you know basketball is such a direct competitive sport that it has a competitive nature, work

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and curiosity because I asked a lot of questions I would always ask. sit down and just ask questions about certain games I studied as a child, what really happened there, what did you feel then, why did I always dream as a child that you knew it was possible to score 80 or 1900.

I always had a dream sometimes. We lie in bed and visualize things. I imagine playing for the Lakers and I imagine what the uniforms will be like. I imagine we would be playing, the smell of sand and all kinds of things and I would see myself, you know, warming up. so you keep dreaming and dreaming and dreaming and before I go to sleep I'm like at 120 points, you know, and so, when you grow up, downloading that into your brain over and over and over, and then you know that summer I did a thousand shots a day a thousand weren't just shots there were shots that you saw in that game there were specific shots something was coming out of the corner going to the pop up post footwork on the post coming off the screen was very specific So when you download that into your system and you go to court and you're just executing things that you've done thousands of times before and you have that dream, then that becomes possible.

Rudy was one of my favorite movies growing up after watching it. movie I came to understand if I could work so hard every day being blessed with the physical tools that I have, what my career would be and I made a promise to myself from that day that I was going to work so hard every day so that when I retire I wouldn't be I will regret it and that was the most important thing for me, so leave no stone unturned, get better every day and if I lived that way, in time I would have something beautiful and that was my philosophy.

It seems simple enough, but you know, if you live your life to get better every day and you do it for 20 years, what do you have basketball? For me it was the most important thing, so everything I watched, whether it was television shows, whether it was. It was books I read, people I talked to, it was all done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player, everything, everything, and when you have that point of view, then literally the world becomes your library. to help you improve at your craft. At 13 I played the longest game because my game wasn't about being better than you at 13.

It was about being better than you when the chips were really on the line, so when you played at 13 I would evaluate you and see what they are. your strengths and weaknesses, how you approach the game, are you dumb about it? are you stupid about it? Are you good at it just because you're bigger and stronger than everyone else? I do well and when I play, I take advantage of my weaknesses because when you play summer basketball there are so many games, so there's not a lot of skill work, so when are you going to get better?

When you play in competitive situations, you are only playing to your strengths, why? Because you want to win, right? So what would I do? I always work on things during those games where I was weak in my left hand after the game, I would lift the jump shot to the right, so I have a strategy and then fast forward until I'm 17 and my game is completely complete and that 13 year old player I saw at 13 is still hitting the same shot at 17. Now you have a problem that I see a lot. of players go on vacation with other players who are close friends just to take vacations or just hang out just to hang out.

I never did that, why didn't you do it so well? Because when I retired I didn't want to have to say what I want. I would have done more. I do not want that. What were some of the factors you looked at to improve your game season after season? The game itself was a complicated response, so there are very tactical things in terms of footwork and game geometry. court, so you're looking at the court and looking at the 45 degree angles that the court is formed at and how it needs to operate, that's one component, so look for spots on the court where you can increase your efficiency properly.

Being on the wing, but there's a certain point on the wing that improves your angle to get to the basket, so that kind of stuff, the opponent's footwork, watching the opponent's emotions, their tendencies, their weaknesses and everything. that, understanding the momentum of the game how to create momentum shifts where the momentum shifts come from all these kinds of things and then studying outside of that right looking at different industries looking at directors looking at writers looking at actors and how they are they get into the characters and then how they stay in that head space, so looking at different different industries, looking at the nature itself and learning from that and how you can incorporate that into the game, man, it's a lot of studying what the conversation with your wife is like. and children to say, listen, this is what I'm doing how well that conversation with the children went is different, so the communication with our children is that dad is working hard, this is the level of attention to detail that you need to have in all you do, so is set the same example.

The thing about my wife, my wife is a stay-at-home mom, it's the hardest job, man, so she works really hard at it, I mean, you know, and her attention to detail with that are also examples for our children and then for my wife. You know she's as competitive as I am, she says, listen, man, if you're going to be here training eight hours a day, if you're going to spend nine months a year away from your family, you better win the championship, but it's a balancing act and that's the important thing is to understand that we have to have a lot of energy because like Natalia and Gianna when they were babies, especially Natalia because they were in the first year and I went to practice and trained and you.

I know I would play and come home and be sore and tired and she wants to go swimming, she wants me to take her to the park and she just wants to jump on my back or whatever. The thing may be that you can't say I'm too tired, I'm going to bed, that's not fair, she doesn't know what the hell is going on right, and if this were a game you'd suck it up and play. I play with the flu I play with a 102 degree fever man you can't do that almighty you have to be in the man like sometimes I fly back like I'm playing a game so I don't miss my daughter's birthday I'd fly I'll be there for her birthday and then I'll fly back with the team just to make sure I don't miss anything.

They must lead by example. Parents, you must lead by example if you want your children to do what they want to achieve in life. I have to show them, you can't, you have to show them and that's what I tried to do. The internal competitiveness was like no, I'm going to do something in the next 20 years that's better than these last 20. What I have to do. The thing now is to make sure that the people that we bring in with these obsessives that we bring in challenge themselves to do the best work that they think they can do.

That's why I'm there, so that you constantly look in the mirror and self-meditate. they evaluate and challenge themselves if we have a project and you say, okay, I can do this, that's not the project we want, the projects that say, I don't know if I can animate, I don't know how to write that story. I don't know how to do it, those are the things we want because through that curiosity you will reach a level that you didn't think was possible. What is your recruiting approach? So if you sit with me, I'm somebody. you really want you really want me on the team what's your approach to recruiting you want first place come play with me you want second place go somewhere else mom mentality simply means trying to be the best version of yourself that's what mentality means every day you try to improve is a constant search, it is an infinite search, so from the age of two, when I started playing, and so on, I always ask questions, I always try to improve every day.

Two, I could dribble a basketball, I could shoot a basketball at the Nerf hoop in the house and I would go to practice with my dad, I would watch my dad, I would sit and watch games with him, I would just constantly look for things to do. learn. I'm very observant. I think the biggest fear you face is yourself because you know we all have dreams and sometimes it's really scary to accept the dream that you have and it's even scarier to say "okay", I want it to be scary because you're scared. That if you put your heart and soul into it and you fail, then how are you going to feel good about yourself?

So, being brave means going out and fighting no matter what, not for anyone else, but for yourself, my goal. It's a drastic change as I grew up, it's like when I was a kid I said I want to be the best ever and now you go through your life and everything you do you try to be the best, that would be the best for everyone, as you grow up, you start. understand that those things are very superficial things and everyone has a different opinion on it, no matter what you do, I can win 20 championships, there is always an opinion on who is the best, everyone has different opinions, so I started to understand that maybe that is not the solution.

The important thing maybe the important thing is how we grow as a team, how I can help my teammates be better, that was the first change for me and then as I grew it became more about how to inspire others to find themselves. to themselves. that's the ultimate championship so I won five championships that's cool another team won a championship this year the team will win a championship next year those things come and go but what remains is how you use your passion and use it to inspire someone else to create their passion and then how can they pass it on to the next person?

That's true, dreams of success, it should be pure. I think that many times, when we are born into this world, we end up going backwards and it seems that the more we mature the more responsible our dreams become, the more governors we put on ourselves and our ability to dream, so it's not about going beyond limitations or expectations, it's really a matter of protecting your dreams, protecting your imagination, that's really the key and when you do it. that then the world seems limitless