Kobe Bryant - “Failure”

How does it feel to lose? Oh, it's exciting, why is it exciting? Because it means you have different ways to improve. There are certain things that you can discover and that you can take advantage of. Certain weaknesses that were exposed, that you need. prop up good, so it was exciting, I mean, it sucks to lose, but at the same time there are answers there if you just look at them, because you get more information from losing than from winning, probably yes, yes, I mean, the answers are there when you you win too, you just have to look at them, yeah right, so it's a constant process, it's exciting when you win, it's exciting when you lose, because the process should be exactly the same, whether you win or lose, when you go back and look and find things you could have done better you find things you've done well that worked figure out how they worked why they worked how you can make them work again yes, but the hardest thing is facing those things so I look at it groundedly and say, "Okay." Well the reason I shot air balls is because my legs aren't there, I got one next year, they'll be there, that's how it was done, a lot of guys tell stories about your work ethic, yeah, what was it?" really your work ethic and how long you stayed disciplined um well, I mean, every day, I mean, since you know, 20 years it was a daily process and trying to figure out the shrimps and the weaknesses, for example, the ability jumping man my vertical was a 40 it wasn't 46 or 40 45 My hands are big but not huge so you have to find ways to strengthen them so your hands are strong enough to be able to slap a ball and get things done what do you need. to do quickness I was fast but not incredibly fast I was fast but not ridiculously fast right so I had to rely a lot more on skill I had to rely a lot more on angles I had to study the game a lot more and uh but I still enjoyed it though since I was, I don't remember when I started watching the game, I studied the game and it never changed, so when we lost in the final in the south in 2008, that was a turning point.

When I sat in the hotel room afterwards, I started thinking about that, you know, because it was up to me if I didn't feel like my teammates were aggressive enough to come down on me and I had to understand what their journey was, how They feel like people, what are they going through? Then I will have the pressure to play. You know how to capitulate to that fear. If you play with the sense of "I want to win, I want to win", then you are afraid of what will happen if you don't, but if you find common ground in the middle, in the center, then it doesn't matter, you are not influenced by any of them. both right, that allows you to really stay in the moment, stay connected to it and not feel anything but what's in it. in front of you so you know I'm trying to be in the center, seriously, what does

failure

mean? not progress from that if you finished your career without a championship you wouldn't have seen it as a

failure

no, I would have seen it as an extreme disappointment because I had a dream and I had goals that I wanted to achieve correctly and If I don't achieve those goals, I have to ask myself why It is correct and so for my position.

The reason I wouldn't have accomplished those things is poor leadership, lack of proper communication with my teammates and putting them in positions to succeed. The same weaknesses are going to reveal themselves at the right time, so if I don't learn from that, I'm going to struggle here too, so I can take those situations and learn from them and make them make me better. person later in life, but if I don't take those things and apply them somewhere else, then that's failing, which to me is the worst thing you can have is stopping and not learning. My brain, can't you process failure?

I won't process failure because if I have to, if I sit there and have to face myself and say to myself, you know you're a failure, I think that's worse, it's almost worse than death.