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Kobe Bryant approached Grit from first principles, cutting through assumptions to reveal fundamental truths. This archive captures that thinking, giving you access to frameworks you can build on. Every quote is sourced and contextualized, allowing you to understand their reasoning. Use this when you need to think clearly about Grit without inheriting broken mental models.
"My brain ... it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure,' ... I think that's almost worse than death."
"The moment you give up, is the moment you let someone else win."
"I would run until I was sick, then I would keep running. That's how you build endurance."
"I don't have a fear of failure. I have a fear of not being prepared."
"The fear of being average is what drove me to work harder than everyone else."
"I would look at my physical limitations as puzzles to be solved. If my ankle was weak, I'd find ten ways to strengthen it."
"Failure is only permanent if you decide to stop."
"Failure is a feeling that you get when you've given up."
"When you have an injury, you don't just wait for it to heal. You work on everything else that isn't broken."
"Rest at the end, not in the middle."
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