Kobe Bryant: You can change your life in 6 months, here is how to do it

He's a basketball player who currently plays for the LA Lakers.

He's a 17-time NBA All-Star.

He became the youngest player in NBA history to reach 30,000 career points.

He's Kobe Bryant, and here are his top 10 rules for success. There's a choice we have to make as people, as individuals. If you want to be great at something, you have to make inherent sacrifices that come along with that— family time, hanging out with your friends. So at the age age of 18, I knew that I was not going to be stopped. This was my life. We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

Look at the hustle of Lamar Odom, off to Kobe Bryant, and Kobe with emphasis.

Once you have the passion, the thing that you're passionate about, now you can look at other people or other entities or other things or works of art, and you can draw things from that to help you be better at what you do by looking for those common denominators. Johnny wanted to know, how do I prepare? How do I prepare? How do I study? How do I view the game? How do you build your game? And my response is much like the way he builds products. You think sequentially. Yeah, you look at this, the end result of what you want to create, but in order to create that, there's so many other little things that go into this massive entity or device. It's no different than building my basketball game. You start with what do you want your game to be, what would make your game most unstoppable or hard to deal with, and now you work backwards from there and you start building it one piece at a time. One move at a time, one counter at a time. So there's a lot of similarities there.

Artest looking, gets it to Bryant. Bryant dribbling, has to put it up at the buzzer, banks it in! He banks in the 3! And the Lakers win the game! And that is just greatness personified.

Well, you just gotta have the, uh, the fearlessness to really take those shots. You know, because you miss those shots, then you have to deal with the criticism. You have to deal with us talking about it, right?

Right.

So, you know, a lot of times a lot of people kind of get apprehensive about taking those shots because of that. Why would we mention it? It seems like you start smiling already just thinking about the word. Yeah, well, it's always, it's always been a myth to me as to why certain people don't really like those situations because of the pressure, you know, because we've all lost games before. So it's not like by you missing that shot you're about to face something that you will never face again or haven't faced in the past, you know what I mean? We've all come up short at, you know, one time or another. So, um, you just gotta kind of let it all hang out and, you know, trust your skills and trust the work that you put in.

Now Bryant again, out between the rings, guarded by Pippen. Kobe on the move, lobs for O'Neal for the dunk! Kobe Bryant worked into the lane and Shaq hammered it in with a right hand. Timeout Portland.

So that means taking things, using things in your life that are scars, using those moments as a weapon, right? Using those as, you know, using basketball as kind of like a vehicle through which to express yourself, right? So it doesn't— so at that moment, for us to face the Celtics again, it's not about the Celtics. It's not about your opponent. It's about you. It's about you taking your inner struggles and channeling that through the game. Right, as a way to unleash, right? So now it became a matter of how do I express that to them? How do I get them to that point where they figure this out for themselves? Because I can't say, hey, listen, I need you to play harder. So what'd you do? Well, I had to share my story. I had to open up to them and let them know I've dealt with things. This is the things that I use. This is how I go about focus. This is how I deal with adversity. This is how I deal with you know, arguing with my wife the day of the game and showing up to the game and still having that focus to be able to play. Like, I used those things to open up with them, and then in turn, they were able to, um, to, to, to, to take those stories and, and make them their own.

The Lakers, because of this man Kobe Bryant, can take over. Oh my, and he posterizes Dwight Howard! Oh, he almost threw his elbow into the basket that time.

Well, you just gotta put one foot in front of the other. And, you know, sometimes I think, you know, even for myself, it's easy to become distracted a little bit and start trying to look at the final— what the final picture is gonna look like. And, you know, when you do that, you can easily become frustrated with where you are at the moment. So, you know, my advice is just to focus on each day. And, you know, you have a plan in place of how you want to improve and how you want to get better, and you stick to that plan. And trust the fact that, you know, every day that you, you know, stick to the plan, it'll get you to your end result.

Spurs cannot buy a triple. Kobe wheeling. What a play to Turrioff! And the foul. And a chance to tie. What a delivery by Kobe Bryant.

I'm not going to be afraid of confrontation. To get us to where we need to go. I think it's— there's a big misconception where people think winning or success comes from everybody putting their arms around each other and singing Kumbaya and patting them on the back when they mess up, and that's just not reality. If you're going to be a leader, you can't— you're not going to please everybody. You got to hold people accountable, even if it's— even if you have that moment of being uncomfortable. Matter of fact, get your hands off me. Don't touch me the rest of the scrimmage. I always compare it to sitting across from somebody at a dinner table. We're sitting across from each other, and would you rather sit with a person that's going to be afraid to tell you you have something in between your teeth and let you walk around a restaurant smiling and stuff like that when you got stuff in between your teeth, or would you rather sit with somebody that's not afraid to have that moment of being uncomfortable to tell you you have something in your teeth so you can get it out and don't look like an idiot in front of everybody else, right? I'mma tell you you have something in your teeth no matter what, even if it hurts my feelings. I'mma tell you you have something in your teeth. I'mma tell you, and then it's your choice if you want to get it out or you just want to leave it there and look like an idiot.

Rotation to Bryant. Buckle up for Kobe Bryant! Kobe Bryant just sucked the gravity out of the Target Center! What a play! The windmill slam!

It's everybody wants to compete. I think it's knowing how to compete. And also, you know, true competitive instinct really kicks in when you're down. You know, like I said, a lot of people are competitive at things that are rolling their way, and, you know, things that they're naturally good at. But it takes a true competitive person when things are down like this to really step up to the plate and go after it.

Long run out by Kobe Bryant behind. What did I just see? You just saw what Kobe does best, and that's bring people to their feet with a sensational play.

Now it's of utmost importance. Like, I mean, I was such a diehard fan, Laker fan growing up, man. And just my personality, like, it would— for me to ask for a trade or to go play someplace else to try to chase a championship. That's not me, man. That's not being— that's not what my career has been about. That's not who I am, man. You know, I stay with it. You know, stuff that I've been through in my life and been through in my career, if it's taught me anything, it's the fact that you'll have good moments, you'll have bad moments, you'll have great moments, you'll have horrible moments. You just keep going through all of them, and then things work themselves out.

Here we got a dribble drive, change of direction by Bryant. Slam dunk! You talk about elevation, Chick. He went up to the rafters before he decided to put somebody on a poster.

And I've always had some of my best performances on the road. You know, when fans boo, I absolutely love it. I thrive on it. They don't understand who I am. Uncomfortable being an outsider, that has become a source of motivation for me. So when I go to these places and you boo, it actually comforts me.

Yeah, they'd love to get into Nash's hands, and they do.

They do.

Ball knocked away, stolen by Parker. Here it is, here comes George to Kobe Bryant. Bryant inside, it's good, it's good! Tie game, a 1-point game. Walton could tip it, Bryant with the save. Now you gotta get a shot here, final seconds. Bryant for the win! Kobe Bryant has hit a shot at the buzzer!

That he gets to the gym at 4:30 in the morning to see Kobe just drenched in sweat like he jumped in a pool, and then Kobe wants to make him do conditioning and weights for a couple hours. So then when the trainer goes to sleep after for a few hours, he comes back to the gym at like 11 AM and he sees that Kobe never left the gym at all. Because he had to make sure that he made 800 shots before he left after he's been working out for hours and hours. Like, you think this is new to me? This is an excerpt from Shaq's book talking about Kobe. Look, they had a feud, so he says he was so young and so immature in some ways, but I can tell you this: everything Kobe is doing now, he told me all the way back then he was going to do it. We were sitting on the bus once and he told me I'm going to be the number one scorer for the Lakers. I'm going to win 5 or 6 championships, and I'm going to be the best player in the game. And I was like, okay, whatever. Then he looked me right in the eye and said, I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA. Shaq used to say he would catch Kobe Bryant on the gym, in the court, without a ball, practicing plays. This is who he is. It's just ingrained in him to do whatever he can for a slight edge. And Shaq said, this, this is funny looking, but you know what, it probably helped him. See, a lot of people want to— they say that they're going to do something. Kobe Bryant does it, right? Talk is cheap, but Kobe did it because he competes with himself every single day. He wants more out of himself every single day. It's that competitive drive to be the best that carries him, carries him through practices. It carries him through the weight training sessions, conditioning, making sure that he gets 800 shots every day. It carries him to work on his craft when no one is watching.

4 away from Elgin Baylor's Laker record. Yes! Well, there's 70.

Everybody wants it to get into Kobe's hand.

Kobe pump fake for 2. Kobe stopped the Laker record! 81-point game! Ladies and gentlemen, you have witnessed the second greatest scoring performance in NBA history.

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