That's true.

"Yeah, I can't lose, I can't lose the weight because of the..." It's the same thing, you know, when you're competing at something.

It's not, why was Michael and Kobe who they were? Tom Brady, Dwayne Wade, Wayne Gretzky, Muhammad Ali, Floyd Me- uh, Floyd Mayweather, all these guys, not because of their physical gifts.

Yes, that had a lot to do with it.

It's up in here.

[laughs]

But I have to ask you a couple things, uh, because it's, curious what your opinion about this, because I've been navigating it.

Lot of entrepreneurs listen to this, or w- they want to be entrepreneurs.

What, what did he mean by that?

Well, you know, what's funny, the reason I said it was a great compliment, listen, if you're gonna be something, don't be a asshole, be the something.

He is the biggest asshole.

If he'd have said he's just a asshole, I'd be like, "How I failed." No, well, what he meant by that is, like, he's not a yes person.

He's gonna hold you accountable.

He's gonna tell you when you did things well.

He's gonna tell you when you thin- when you did things wrong.

I'm not willing to, to put this year on hold or these multiple years." Most people would say, "Okay, well, I'll probably give up on, on this dream." But yet you talk about the dark side of winning, that person will persist anyway.

Were you around for this inception? Was this part of your idea? Or can you speak to that identity shift and what the Black Mamba was able to accomplish?

Yeah.

So the one thing I want to say, everybody thinks of the Black Mamba as a mentality.

And I was telling them, it's not a mentality.

It's a lifestyle.

It's a lifestyle.

And I've seen more individuals who have tried to adopt this Mamba mentality lifestyle, and it's actually... been more of a hindrance in their careers than it has been a success.

So how do we get to that laser-like level of focus with all of these distractions? And what is your perspective on time management? Because I've heard it and I want our audience to hear it because I really agree with it wholeheartedly.

Yeah.

Because it starts with a really hard look in the mirror.

We are our biggest liars.

We will lie to ourself about fucking everything.

And if you will not stand in front of the mirror and take a real, true, honest, unbiased, accountable assessment of your own life, you cannot win.

You cannot win.

There is going to become a time if you want to create what it is that you want to c- to do, that you're gonna have to look at yourself, dude, and you're gonna have to realize it's nobody's fault.

Fuck yeah.

You know what I mean?

Everybody wants to be- everyone wants to sit in that chair.

Everybody wants to sit in that seat, until it's time to sit in that seat, until it's time to make those decisions.

Listen, pressure's a privilege, folk.

Stop, don't run from it.

You don't run from, you don't run from pressure, you run tow- you run towards it.

All right? Pressure defines who you are and who you're not, but also defines who you can become.

Yeah.

What drives you today that wasn't driving you back then?

One of the things that I know is, obviously, I have less time now.

I've been blessed to have individuals that have taught me a lot.

It's funny.

People get to sit down with...

Kobe for a podcast, sit down with him for an hour, two hours.

Had conversations with MJ or the other thousands of individuals that I've been blessed to work with.

How did you train them to stay composed?