Sport Psych on Kobe Bryant

There's a great story of Colby Bryant, the basketball player in his first year as a professional. His team reached the playoffs, and he was the superstar, the young superstar. And in the last minute of the game, he had three shots to win the game for his team and missed all three. And at the end of the game, the interview, the commentators were astounded. This great talent missed all three shots, and he was sat down on the bench and his head was in his hands, and they were talking about how he must feel. He must feel dreadful. And when he got up to come off the court, they managed to get an interview with him and said, colby, you were sat on the bench with your head in your hands. You must have felt terrible. And he looked at me, said, what's feeling got to do with it? I was working out why I missed those shots. I now know why I missed those shots, and I can do something about it. And that's a great coping strategy. When you have a setback, setbacks knock you emotionally off balance, but you've got to work beyond the emotion to get to, why did I have that setback? What can I learn from it? How am I going to avoid it in the future? And go on. I love that. That's an amazing story.