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Kobe on Confidence in Practice

12 Sept 2025 · 0 min

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Short YouTube excerpt in which a single speaker (labeled SPEAKER A) argues that true improvement requires struggling in practice—pushing past fatigue and exhaustion during sprints and 17s—and that being pushed hard in training is desirable and enjoyable. The clip focuses on training mentality and the value of deliberate physical strain.

Because if you don't struggle in practice, you're never going to get better. So, like, if you were to watch me train, I'd look as tired as they were, because that's what you're supposed to be. Now, when you're running 17s and you're running sprints, you're not supposed to feel great. You're supposed to be tired, like exhausted. That's the point, you know? And that's what practice is. So I really liked it. I really enjoyed it. I'm glad that they pushed it the way that they did, because that's the only way you get better, is by pushing yourself past exhaustion.