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Introduction
If you really want to be great at something, you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it. A lot of people say they want to be great, but they're not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve greatness. They have other concerns, and they spread themselves out.
That's totally fine. After all, greatness isn't for everybody. What I'm saying is greatness isn't easy to achieve. It requires a lot of time, a lot of sacrifices. It requires a lot of tough choices. It requires your loved ones to sacrifice, too. So you have to have an understanding circle of family and friends.
People don't always understand just how much effort from how many people goes into one person chasing a dream to be great. There's a fine balance between obsessing about your craft and being there for your family. It's akin to walking a tightrope. Your legs are shaky, and you're trying to find your center.
Whenever you lean too far in one direction, you correct your course and end up over leaning in the other direction. So you correct by leaning the other way again. That's the dance. You can't achieve greatness by walking a straight line. "Respect to those who do achieve greatness and respect to those who are chasing that elusive feeling."
That is an excerpt from the book I'm going to talk about today, which is The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant. Okay. So before I jump back into the book, I'm doing this bonus episode on Kobe. There'll be another episode coming out in a few hours later on today. But I did this bonus episode on Kobe because I wanted to have the opportunity to tell you about this new daily podcast that I'm actually doing. It's called Founders Daily. It's a private subscription podcast. It costs $99 a year to listen to. There's a link below in the show notes, and you can go to founderspodcast.com if you want to get it.