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Kobe Bryant on Small gains, habits vs quantum leaps

2 Jan 2025 · 0 min

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A short motivational excerpt (YouTube) in which the speaker—attributed to Kobe Bryant—argues against expecting sudden "quantum leaps" in progress. Instead the speaker stresses incremental, daily improvement: take one step at a time, and over time those small gains amount to climbing a mountain (Everest) metaphorically.

Too many kids get so discouraged because they're expecting to make this quantum leap. And when that quantum leap doesn't come, it feels like it'll never come, Right? But that's not how it works. It's step by step, one foot in front of the other, day by day, get better every single day. And then when you look back, then you look down and you realize the mountain that you just scaled, right? But you can't jump from the bottom of Everest and get to the top of Everest like that. None happened.