Bars: When the storm ends...are you ready? (Classic Kobe Interview)
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.9 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
The implications and impact of COVID-19 on athletes and entrepreneurs alike cannot be argued. Leagues are shutting down. Businesses are tapping out. This storm is changing plans for so many.
The question is this…. When the storm is over, will you be ready? Or will you then magically start to get ready? If that's your plan, I feel sorry for you. In this episode, Kobe breaks down his mindset towards big obstacles like these, and why it's so crucial to stay ready.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. This is your host, Nees Showbo. Today is another episode of bars. |
| 0:06.3 | It's where I break down a bar. It could be a lyric. It could be an excerpt from a book. And it could |
| 0:11.1 | be like in the case of today, a clip from an interview that I heard. I watch interviews a lot. |
| 0:16.8 | I enjoy it. It's something I do in my past time when I'm stretching after I've done worked out. |
| 0:24.4 | I like to listen to music while I'm working out. So I don't really like listening to interviews while I'm lifting, pumping that iron, or even running for that matter. But afterward, I do. |
| 0:29.8 | Anyway, today's an episode or a clip from a Kobe interview. All right. So you guys know Kobe Bryant, |
| 0:36.4 | goat, rest in peace, he passed away earlier this year. |
| 0:39.1 | Tragedy. But the beautiful thing about it is that Kobe left us with his philosophy. And that's what |
| 0:44.1 | I'm so grateful for in terms of his ability, not just to articulate it, but of course have a philosophy |
| 0:49.6 | that he lived his life by. And he gives us so many opportunities to learn from it and today is no |
| 0:56.7 | different all right so listen to what kobe said about staying ready what i've learned is to to |
| 1:01.2 | always keep going always you know there's been times particularly early in my career where he just |
| 1:07.6 | feels like this is the end but what I've come to find out is that, |
| 1:11.1 | you know, no matter what happens, the storm eventually ends. And when the storm does end, |
| 1:15.7 | you want to make sure that you're ready. And so I've really learned to put one foot in front |
| 1:19.7 | of the other, a good batter and different, because eventually that storm passes. All right, so listen, |
| 1:25.0 | this is very simple, and it has a lot of implications for right now. |
| 1:30.9 | So there's a lot of you whose lives have been put on halt, especially you athletes. |
| 1:36.7 | I can't imagine how frustrating it is to be going into your senior season, ready, in great |
| 1:41.9 | shape, only to realize that your season could possibly |
| 1:45.6 | be canceled and you can never get that season back. Some of you are never going to get the season |
| 1:49.6 | back. I can't really imagine what it's like. One of my clients, Mike, man, he's getting ready for |
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