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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Be Like Kobe. Do the Work. | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

We all want things to be easier in life. But like I told you last week, 90 percent of success is simply doing the work. So... are you constantly looking for hacks, or are you willing to do the work? Check out today’s Mindset Monday to find out why this topic makes me instantly think of Kobe Bryant – and why we should all “be like Kobe.”

Transcript

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0:00.0

I think what a lot of people miss is we're looking for the fast way, the easy way, the you

0:05.4

know, quickest, fastest hack to get to success.

0:09.2

I think about time with Kobe Bryant years ago inside the gym and I was blessed to just

0:14.7

stumbled into the gym with the same trainer, his trainer and him and myself and my trainer

0:19.6

and inside the gym doing our thing and what I respected and admired so much about him

0:25.0

and the time we got to just connect being dads with kids at the same school was he never

0:30.3

looked for the hack.

0:32.1

He was always willing to do the work.

0:34.0

He was always willing to go the extra mile, all the things that we know make that extraordinary

0:38.7

athlete extraordinary and not just in athletics but in everything else he pursued in his career.

0:44.8

I asked you this, are you looking for the fast way or are you just looking to do the

0:49.3

work?

0:50.3

Over time, I know what approach is going to get you the best possible result.

0:55.4

10% is the decision, the how, the why.

0:58.4

90% is grinding it out and doing the work and I don't mean grind like grinding hustle,

1:03.6

I mean doing it 240 days a year for a decade or so, that's how you get real success.

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