On April 201June 14, Kobe played the last game and immediately announced his retirement. He blew up my circle of friends with his brilliant record and chicken soup. Needless to say, let's focus on Koch's chicken soup.
I was deeply impressed by a few words in his farewell speech:
He said, "If I have the ability to make time to go back, I will never use it. Because every moment you have experienced will become meaningless, you can always turn back the clock and start again. This will lose its taste and beauty. "
He said: "When I take off the Lakers' No.24 jersey, I will be very calm and ready to leave. "
Is it like the old Zen master said, "One second you're dead, the next you're not born, and all you can grasp is the present." What is gone is beautiful because it is eternal in time. "
Kobe is too old as a player, but he is still too young as a Zen master. At the age of 38, what made his old monk's mood transcend his age and travel through time? Although Kobe has won too many honors in his career, I think there must be a more complicated mechanism than honor to create Kobe today.
When Kobe was young, he said a famous poetic chicken soup: "Have you ever seen Los Angeles like me at 4 am?"
Kobe is a high school student selected for the NBA, and his education is not high. But his brilliant achievements come from his efforts to train four hours more than other players every day. At 4 o'clock in the morning, he had already started to practice shooting, so he saw the scenery of Los Angeles.
Most people can't enjoy this kind of scenery. It's 4 o'clock, just imagine, I'm already sleepy! But Kobe persisted and cooked chicken soup again: "When I retire, I hope to look back on the road I have traveled. Every day, I have given everything! "
There are good and bad chicken soup, and the bad chicken soup is rambling, incoherent or confusing. This chicken soup is not only useless, but also harmful. Good chicken soup is the precipitation of time and condenses into value.
The "10,000-hour Law" tells us that 10,000 hours of exercise is a necessary condition for a person to become extraordinary from ordinary. This is what the writer Gladwell put forward in his book The Outsider: The genius in people's eyes is extraordinary, not because of superior talent, but because of continuous efforts.
Chicken soup can't be cooked if you want. Kobe Bryant's 20 years of "smelling chickens and dancing", coupled with extraordinary qualifications, his chicken soup must be trustworthy and nutritious.
Let's listen to another chicken soup in his farewell speech, which is worth pondering: "I am not proud of the year when we won the championship, but proud of the year when we struggled."
This is the story of Kobe Bryant and the Lakers. Since Kobe entered the league from 1996, he has played for the Lakers for 2 1 year, setting a record for the longest time an NBA player has played for a team.
Persistence in prosperity is like spring breeze, and persistence in adversity is very difficult. Kobe Bryant and the Lakers were far from smooth sailing, and O 'Neal's departure made the Lakers fall to a low point. In the middle, Kobe also had a transfer storm, but he finally chose to stick to it. The Lakers made Kobe, and Kobe also made the Lakers. This is a legend.
Kobe Bryant was not born in Kobe Bryant. He has undergone a transformation. In his early years, Kobe was full of controversy, and some even summed up 20 fatal weaknesses of Kobe's ball and character, including selfishness, arrogance, willfulness, preference for complaining, personal heroism, irritability and so on. Until the age of 30, Kobe decided to become the real leader of the Lakers, and he restrained his personal edge to the utmost extent. He is no longer impatient, scolding his teammates less and less, but encouraging more. He is no longer as greedy as before, but more supportive of his teammates. "I hope to inspire every teammate with desperate defense." After the transformation, Kobe led the Lakers out of the trough and regained the championship peak twice.
"The measure of a person's success is not the height at which he reached the peak, but the resilience at which he fell to the bottom." General Patton's famous words apply not only to Chu, but also to Kobe.
Metamorphosis is a process of letting go of "self", getting calm, accumulating rebound kinetic energy, and then giving birth to "self". I think Kobe's old monk-like mentality in the later stage of his career evolved from this.
After the transformation, Kobe is integrated with the team. He said, "I can do anything to win the game, whether it's sitting on the bench and handing towels to my teammates or playing the winning goal." He enjoyed every second of the game intently, the team was activated, and he was still the most lethal scorer on the field. A Kobe who has both offensive and defensive skills is invincible!
Losers have their own failures, but winners always feel the same. Warren Buffett's brilliance also comes from diligence, loneliness, persistence and concentration. Buffett never looked back at the top of the mountain. He said: "We have no chance to go back to the top of the mountain and start snowballing again. This is life. "
Even the habits of successful people are similar. Alice Schroeder, Buffett's biographer, wrote: "He turned a deaf ear to almost everything except business activities, such as art, literature, science, tourism and architecture. -so that he can concentrate on pursuing his passion. " It seems that there is only basketball in Kobe's life. Shaq O 'Neill once said, "I may go to 30 parties a year, but Kobe won't attend any."
I think if Buffett hears Kobe's farewell speech, he will definitely applaud him.
"Looking back has always been chic. Go home. There is no rain or shine. " Blooming in glory and struggling in the trough, Kobe really deserves to leave "very peacefully". He doesn't need to feel sorry for leaving the 420-square-meter stadium because there is a wider sky for him to fly.
Kobe also survived some other wonderful chicken soup, tasted it again and bid farewell to the "Peter Pan" in the hearts of a generation.