30 Minutes That Will Change Your Perspective on Life | Kobe Bryant Motivation

[Music] to me the mentality is a really simple one in an assistant the confidence comes from preparation you know so when the game's on the line I'm not asking myself to do something that I haven't done thousands of times before right so when I prepare I know what I'm capable of doing I know what I'm comfortable doing and I know what I'm not comfortable doing right and so in those moments if it looks like I'm ice cold or not nervous it's because I've done it thousands of times before so it's one more time so that leads me to talk about a lot of this Kobe tour this year in Asia is we we reiterate the Mamba mentality you know can you talk a little bit about what the Mamba mentality is because that's something that's been developing over I don't say 20 years it's been developing for 35 years since you were a little kid that Mamba mentality because you didn't start working when you got the damn yeah you started working when you are at Lower Merion when you were in Italy when you were five when you're playing nerf nerf basketball so talking I'll talk about the development of the Mamba mentality the pillars the five pillars of this Mamba mentality and then we'll kind of break it down well I mean I overall you know the idea is a very simple one and you know the Mamba mentality simply means trying to be the best version of yourself that's what the mentality means it means every day you're trying to become better it's a constant quest it's an infinite quest so starting at the age of two when I first started playing the game and on and on and on I always asked questions I always tried to get better every single day learn more you're asking questions that - oh dude I was you'd be surprised like some people like my kids at - could do a lot of things mm-hmm I - I could dribble the basketball I could shoot a basketball on the nerf hoop at the house and I would go to practice with my father I would observe my father I'd sit and watch games with him and see your first coach yeah I guess you could say that you know a lot of things I learned by being just being around the game right so by the age of six I was already strategizing versus other six year olds you know the age of six I figured out six year olds couldn't dribble with their left hand so I said okay colada a lot of 12 year olds can't dribble with their well yeah would imagine six so like I was playing these six year old kids I would make them dribble with their left cuz I knew they couldn't so they dribble off their foot I'd pick it up lay it up do it again drove off foot pick it up laid up said say shoes oh it had 63 points I remember mine say you're sick so your six year old self could beat your 38 year old self these you only scored 60 in the last game yeah no but I could you hold my left oh so that's a problem but um but yeah maze listen I just constantly looked for things to learn from and very observant when you when you talk about this love when does it develop before you did you like it when you were five or is it something that kind of gradually went - I was born and I was born to play basketball you know what I mean and I played a lot of different sports but nothing brought me the sense of peace escape you know that the game of basketball do is it an escape when you get on the court is that your Zen time your your your salah - time yeah even though it's a team working yeah when I need that escape it's there for me right when I need a friend it's there for me you know what I need to vent and don't donkey the Mamba come just there you know so it's yeah the game is absolutely everything you mean when you when we talk about trying to get kids to be passionate I don't think every kid I don't think your situation is the norm not every kid is knows their passion at 2 or 5 right how do kids find that passion because you know you you embraced it right away anything experience we try to put them in different things try to expose them to as many things as possible and then see if there's one thing that connects with them because if it does you don't have to tell them to do it you know whether it's writing or painting or drawing you know if they have that passion you don't have to tell them they'll go off and do it because it's just fun you'd rather do that so but as parents is our job to just expose them to as many things as possible and see which one they gravitate to the most it's interesting because you talk about kids right originally we're talking about you now you're talking about your kids and their passions do you do you kind of feel that passion for them and then say hey let's go play some basketball or volleyball or let's go swimming yeah we expose them to all kinds that maybe they play a lot of different sports they do a lot of things creatively you know in writing and things like that in designing and you just sit back and you just watch which one they move to and then it's our responsibility as parents to try to set them up for success as much as we possibly can do you want them to play basketball I wanted to find whatever it is that they're passionate about like whatever they feel like their purpose is and that's what I want them to do do they love basketball that's um so I my youngest one she does as she wants to she wants to play she wants me to teach how to play this summer and you know our hell this is really into valuable uh-huh so and but we'll see you know passions tend to change is he gonna get into volleyball now well yeah I mean sister was a great volleyball player so we have a teacher and a family is there is there one moment where you can say it defined your passion for basketball is their story or moment when you said yeah that was that was it that was like when I felt really passionate no I it doesn't never leave never leaves like that you know the game was just a part of me so it never leaves even now that I'm retired you know everything I've learned from the game of basketball I've carried it over into life you know like basketballs helped me be a better person a better friend of it I'll tell her well because there's life lessons that are within the game like communications like unselfishness attention to detail empathy and compassion like all those things are in the game and as an athlete if we are aware of those things it helps us become better human human beings and you can apply that toward your post post basketball days retirement into your business world surely true ventures sure I mean you can play you know I was applying that even while I was playing just in life outside of the game and even more so now you know in building a business and all these things you know kind of culture you when I have and all those things are directly learn from the game of basketball to me next up is the next pillar be obsessive obsessive that's I think I think a lot of people equate that with you you know Kobe is obsessive in a lot of things we've been doing this for what eight years now Asia tour you know I've been with you for a long way at the one moment that stands out out of we've done I don't know how many that we've done the 1-800 events the one time was 4:00 a. m. we went out to practice at 4:00 a.

m. and that was your idea to do it well then you know all these Nike people are like no no no no let's not let's not do that and then you're like let's do it at 4:00 a. m.

so you got security you got brand marketing sports marketing going no no no no no no no that's not good you're like let's do it because that's your sustenance right I mean to me it just makes complete sense not to us see we all right what you usually I'm sleeping at 4 a. m. you're here working out so talk about that ok so if if your job is to try to be the best basketball player you can be alright to do that you have to practice you have to train right you want to train as much as you can as often as you can so if you get up at 10:00 in the morning train at 11:00 12:00 say 12:00 train at 12:00 train for two hours 12:00 to 2:00 you have to let your body recover so you recovered whatever you get back out you train start training again at 6:00 train from 6:00 to 8:00 and now you go home shower you dinner you go to bed you wake up do it again right those are two sessions right now imagine you wake up at 3:00 you train at 4:00 you go four to six come home breakfast relax so so now you're back at it again nine to eleven relax and now it's done you're back at it again to the four and have you're back at it again you know seven to nine look how much more training I have done by simply starting at four all right so now you do that and as the years go on the separation that you have with through competitors and your peers just grows larger and larger and larger and larger and larger and by year five or six doesn't matter what kind of work they're doing a summer they're never going to catch up because they're five years behind so it makes sense to get up and start your day early because you can get more working is that genetic or is that something you you engrained and trained yourself no it was not you that for me it was it was just common sense like I can I can if I start earlier I can train more hours and I know the other guys aren't doing it because I know what their training schedule is right so I know if I do this consistently over time this the gaps just gonna widen and why no why no why no why and they won't be able to get that back so it's me it was just common sense I'm like thinking how can I get an advantage oh start earlier yeah let's do that when did you start doing that in high school high school we start my first class on high school was seven at 7:45 I usually get to the gym around 5:00 a.

m. and I'd play before school and then school the Stars playing with you at 5:00 a. m.