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Founders: #340 Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant

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What I learned from reading Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim Grover and Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness by Tim Grover. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes ---- Follow Founders Podcast on YouTube ----(3:00) What I am giving you is insight into the mentality of those who have found unparalleled success by trusting their own instincts. (3:00) Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson. (Founders #240) (6:00) Michael was the best because he was relentless about winning. No matter how many times he won he always wanted more and he was always willing to do whatever it took to get it. (6:00) Michael never cared about achieving mere greatness. He cared about being the best ever. (7:00) These are the most driven individuals you'll ever know, with an unmatched genius for what they do: they don't just perform a job, they reinvent it. (8:00) Alex Rodriguez interviews Kobe Bryant (11:00) The most important thing, the one thing that defines and separates him from any other competitor: He's addicted to the exquisite rush of success and he'll alter his entire life to get it. (11:00) The mind will play tricks on you. The mind was t

[00:00:00] On the night that the Chicago Bulls were eliminated from the 1995 NBA playoffs by the Orlando Magic, I sat with Michael in the darkened arena until 3 a.m. He had just returned to basketball two months earlier, following his first retirement and brief baseball career. So much had happened in the last year. Dressed in a suit and tie, he looked around the brand new arena that had replaced the legendary Chicago Stadium earlier that season and said, I hate this fucking building. You built this fucking building, I said. During that series, some of the Orlando Magic players said that he…

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