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Kobe Bryant woke at 4 AM to train not because he forced himself through willpower, but because it matched who he was. Elite performers act from identity, not discipline.
Kobe Bryant woke at 4 AM to train not because he forced himself through willpower, but because it matched who he was. Elite performers act from identity, not discipline.
And let me tell you something about successful people. They're not running off of willpower. They're not running also off of discipline. They're not running off of grind and sacrifice and hard work. They're running off of identity. They're running off of identity. You out of your rabbit-ass mind if you think Kobe Bryant was using willpower to get out of his bed at 4 AM and go to the gym when he was already a millionaire, multi-millionaire, many times over. He wasn't using willpower to go to the gym at 4 AM. He had an identity to where staying in bed felt like suffocating. Staying in bed felt like letting the city of Los Angeles down. That staying in bed felt like letting every Laker that came before him down. That staying in bed did not align with the way that he saw himself. So it wasn't willpower getting him out of bed, it was this feeling, I gotta get my ass to the gym.
