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Sports Motivation Podcast

Be like Kobe Pt. 2: "Put in the TIME"

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Business, Sports

4.9767 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today we break down Kobe's simple philosophy of just putting in more time... To Kobe, it made perfect sense. Listen to his explanation, and find out how to apply this to your own career.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A year ago, we lost a legend, one of the greatest basketball players of all time,

0:05.4

and one of the most dominant competitors this world has ever seen.

0:09.6

Kobe Bryant.

0:11.4

While it's nice to idealize and immortalize his legacy,

0:15.7

what's even better is to identify the mindset that made him great,

0:23.8

to make it practical and work with intensity and precision to apply the same standards to our careers as athletes. Let's be like Kobe.

0:33.4

It's simple. Like if you do the math on this, right? Like if you're thinking about how often kids are playing, right?

0:39.8

I tell this to my daughter and my daughter's team as well that I coach.

0:43.3

It's a simple thing of math.

0:44.8

If you want to be a great player, if you play every single day, two, three hours, every single day,

0:49.8

or a course of a year, how much better are you getting?

0:52.3

Most kids will play maybe, you know, an hour and a half, two days a week.

0:58.6

Right.

0:59.3

Put the math on that.

1:00.4

It's not going to get it done.

1:02.8

It's not going to get it done, right?

1:04.2

So if you're obsessively training two, three hours every single day, over a year, over two years.

1:11.9

You're going to accelerate.

1:12.6

You made quantum leaps.

1:13.7

Welcome to the sports motivation podcast.

1:16.3

Be Like Kobe Part 2.

1:18.0

It's all about honoring Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest basketball players of all time,

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