249: Kobe Bryant | Dissecting the Mamba Mentality
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) is most known for his 20 years on the basketball court as one of the game's most iconic legends. He now focuses his famous tenacity on running Granity Studios, an award-winning multimedia company devoted to creating new ways to tell stories around sports -- like Legacy and the Queen with Annie Matthew.
What We Discuss with Kobe Bryant:- What creativity and basketball have in common and what Kobe has carried from the court to his new business.
- Lessons Kobe has learned from people who are the best at what they do — from Taylor Swift to Jony Ive to Sean Penn to Kate Winslet to Larry Moss to Oprah to George R.R. Martin.
- How Kobe manages pressure in high stakes situations on the court and at the head of a creative content studio.
- The music that gets Kobe in the mindset he needs to excel at whatever he does.
- The importance of learning how to negotiate with yourself in order to achieve greatness, and how parents might help their kids develop this crucial skill.
- And much more…
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:05.5 | As always I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:08.1 | On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's |
| 0:12.1 | most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that |
| 0:16.5 | you can use to impact your own life and those around you. |
| 0:20.5 | Today's guest is a man of epic proportions literally. |
| 0:23.8 | He's one of the greatest basketball players of all time. |
| 0:26.3 | He spent 20 years on the Los Angeles Lakers and is an 18 time all star. |
| 0:31.4 | The Black Mamba Kobe Bryant is on the show today everybody. |
| 0:35.6 | Today what creativity and basketball have in common and what Kobe's carried from the |
| 0:40.2 | court into his new businesses. |
| 0:42.6 | How Kobe manages pressure and high stakes situations. |
| 0:45.4 | We'll also talk about his new books and creative endeavors and you're going to see in the |
| 0:49.2 | YouTube clips if you're watching us here on YouTube or if you go to that channel after |
| 0:53.2 | you've heard the interview here by the way that's at Jordan Harbinger.com slash YouTube. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm holding and talking about his books. |
| 0:59.4 | There's really something special going on here. |
| 1:01.3 | We talked basketball and how he studies and models other people, especially actors and |
| 1:05.5 | actresses to gain an edge. |
| 1:06.9 | In fact, you'll be very surprised at who Kobe draws inspiration from. |
| 1:11.5 | We also discuss raising hard working kids and instilling values as a parent. |
| 1:15.7 | There's a whole lot going on in this episode. |
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