888 | Kobe Bryant: “Be Obsessive.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
The late Kobe Bryant is back on the show to talk about one of the core pillars of the Mamba Mentality: be obsessive. Find out how you can get so far ahead of the pack that they’ll never be able to catch up with you.
Source: TEDxShanghaiSalon - Power of the Mind
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's QOD is Be Obsessive. |
| 0:04.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome back to the quarter of the day show. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm your host, Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and calm. |
| 0:36.0 | We got the late great Kobe Bryant on the show today. |
| 0:39.0 | And as you probably can guess, this is my favorite clip of the whole entire week. |
| 0:44.0 | Because this is the philosophy that will reveal the greatness within you. |
| 0:51.0 | And it was maybe, I don't know, 10, 12, 13 years ago when I learned about the 10,000 hour rule. |
| 0:58.0 | Malcolm Gladwell says, if you want to become a real expert in a field, you got to put in your 10,000 hours. |
| 1:06.0 | And when you first hear about that, you go, my gosh, I'm so behind. |
| 1:09.0 | How much get 10,000 hours in? |
| 1:12.0 | This is how you do it. Here's Kobe. |
| 1:16.0 | Next up is the next pillar. Be obsessive. |
| 1:20.0 | Obsessive. I think a lot of people equate that with you. |
| 1:24.0 | Kobe is obsessive in a lot of things. |
| 1:27.0 | We've been doing this for what? Eight years now, Asia tour. |
| 1:31.0 | I've been with you for a long way. |
| 1:33.0 | The one moment that stands out, we've done, I don't know how many done, we've done, what? |
| 1:38.0 | 800 events. The one time was 4 a.m. |
| 1:41.0 | We went out to practice at 4 a.m. |
| 1:44.0 | And that was your idea to do it. |
| 1:46.0 | But then all these Nike people are like, no, no, no, no, no, let's not do that. |
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