Good morning and welcome to the Increase from Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,948. This excerpt

comes from Kobe Bryant's book, and he is talking about the importance of being a learning machine.

He says this, quote, if I wanted to implement something new into my game, I'd see it and try incorporating it immediately.

I wasn't scared of looking bad or being embarrassed.

I always kept the end result, the long game in my mind.

I always focused on the fact that I had to try something to get it.

And once I got it, I'd have another tool in my arsenal.

I would work tirelessly on adding elements to my game.

I'd see something I liked in person or on film and go practice it immediately.

I'd practice it more the next day.

And then I'd go out and use it.

By the time I reached the league, I had a short learning curve.

I could see something, download it, and have it down pat.

And then, Kobe goes right into this theme that he repeated over and over again. He says,

the very best people, they all have this incessant internal drive. From the very beginning,

I wanted to be the best. I had a constant craving, a yearning to improve, and to be the best.

I never needed any external forces to motivate me, close quote. What I love about this book is

Kobe's Mamba mentality. He constantly talks about being a learning machine and being able to see it and practice it and then

implement it what I really like what he said is he wasn't embarrassed to look bad and I think sometimes

that embarrassment stops a lot of people we don't want to do things because it's embarrassing to

look bad you feel bad you feel down on yourself. You have the imposter

syndrome. And my question to you is there's something that you're trying to improve on, but you don't

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