Mamba Mentality: A Winning Philosophy

We all heard about the famous basketball player Kobe Bryant at some point. He was one of the greatest in basketball, but it doesn't matter if you play or watch basketball a day in your life. You heard about him.

This is not simply because he was such a good basketball player and not because he died in a plane crash in recent years. It's because he is so much more than that. He is the infamous ''Black Mamba''.

Kobe adopted this nickname of his work ethic, desire to be deadly on the basketball court, and competitiveness and intensity. After proving himself repeatedly on the court, in the gym, in every single training, and every single day, his nickname has become so much bigger than a nickname. It has become a way of thinking, a mentality.

Mamba mentality basically represents constant improvement, facing new challenges, embracing failure, working tirelessly, and being the best. In an interview, Kobe stated that this mentality mainly shapes by 10 fundamental rules. These are;

1- Get better every single day

2- Prove them wrong

3- Work on your weaknesses

4- Execute what you practiced

5- Learn from greatness

6- Learn from wins & losses

7- Practice mindfulness

8- Be ambitious

9- Believe in your team

10- Learn storytelling

These rules are not just applicable to his game, every single rule is a mirror of how he sees the world, and how he worked relentlessly to become the best in whatever he did. He was not just a great basketball player, not just a successful businessman, not just an Oscar-winning producer, not just a great father. He was the ''Mamba'' and his mentality did, has been, and will be changing the lives who embrace it.