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The Daily Motivation

Turn Your Fear Of Starting Again Into Your Greatest Transformation | Kobe Bryant

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8960 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Kobe Bryant reveals the terrifying moment his Achilles injury forced him to face retirement and the dark room of uncertainty about what comes next. He shares the exact mindset shift that took him from chasing money to following his passion for storytelling, and why even the greatest athletes struggle with starting over.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:09.0

One of the things that I had to learn is how to get the best out of my teammates.

0:14.0

Yeah.

0:15.0

And most people think it's a simple thing, you know, passing the ball.

0:18.0

You know, but that's not how you make guys better.

0:20.0

You have to really affect their behavior.

0:22.7

How do you do that? So, yeah, like, I would tell guys, you got back-to-backs. You know, I don't care if we're in Miami. I don't care if we're in a great city of Chicago. You can't go out. We've got to get rest. Back-to-back games. Back-to-back games. right Monday, Tuesday.

0:36.1

You play Monday and play again Tuesday.

0:38.2

Guys are going to listen, right?

0:39.2

You're going to, you know, right?

0:40.1

So a few times said, all right, we'll all go out. We'll go out together. Really? I'll drink with you, right? But the next morning, I'm banging on your door at 5 in the morning. Let's go. They're not getting me. Where are we going? I hung out with you. Now you come hang out with me. This is what we do. All right, let's go they're not getting where are we going i hung out with you now you come hang out with me

0:56.5

this is what we do all right let's go and you're at the gym we're working out right we hit the bus

1:01.6

we go to practice we play that night and they're dead and they're dead and they're like lesson learned

1:05.9

lesson learn take them out once listen if you're going to do that that. But don't let that compromise what we're here to do.

1:13.3

Right.

1:13.5

This is why we're here.

1:14.4

This is why you're here in the first place.

1:16.1

Yeah.

1:16.8

Right. And if we're going to win a championship, we have to have that championship mentality and work ethic. That's it. So you got to show them though.

1:22.6

Cope can do that and still has the energy to get up and do this.

1:25.1

So either I got to meet that same energy or I got to keep my butt in my room.

1:27.8

Go to that early, yeah.

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