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Kobe Bryant - "The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great at whatever they want to do." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern and let's dive into today's
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  quote from Kobe Bryant, five time NBA champion and one of the
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  greatest basketball players in history.
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  He once said the most important thing is to try and inspire
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  people so they can be great at whatever they want to do.
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  Notice what Kobe doesn't say? He isn't saying the most
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  important thing is winning championships or breaking
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  records or being the best. He says the most important thing
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  is to inspire other people's greatness.
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  Think about that coming from someone who won five
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  championships, someone obsessed with excellence, someone whose
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  work ethic was legendary. He could have said the most
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  important thing is personal achievement, personal greatness
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  and being number one. But he didn't.
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  He said inspiring others is what matters most.
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  And look at the second part, at whatever they want to do.
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  Not basketball. Not his thing.
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  Kobe's not trying to create copies of himself.
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  He's trying to spark greatness in others on their own paths,
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  their own pursuits, their own definitions of excellence.
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  This is what separates legacy from achievement.
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  Achievement is what you do. Legacy is what you inspire
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  others to do. You can be the best at something
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  and die with that achievement and it ends with you.
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  Or you can inspire others to pursue their own greatness, and
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  that ripples out forever and multiplies and it compounds.
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  Kobe scored 33,643 points in his career.
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  Impressive, historic, but those points are done.
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  They're in the past. But the people he inspired,
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  they're still out there, still pursuing excellence, still
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  pushing themselves, creating their own achievements in
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  basketball, business, arts, science, whatever they want to
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  do. That's the real legacy, not what
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  you achieved, who you inspired. So here's the question, who are
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  you inspiring? And more importantly, are you
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  living in a way that makes other people want to be great at
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  whatever they do? Because according to Kobe,
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  that's the most important thing. Not your achievements, your
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  inspiration. That's going to do it.
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  For today, I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be
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  back tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.