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id: "entity-kobe-bryant"
type: "entity"
entityType: "person"
canonicalName: "Kobe Bryant"
aliases: ["Kobe", "Black Mamba"]
source_timestamps: ["00:11:37", "00:11:55"]
tags: ["sports", "mindset"]
related: ["concept-high-agency", "contrarian-nervousness-as-data", "quote-kobe-nervousness"]
sources: ["s09-people-getting-promoted"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s09-people-getting-promoted"
originDay: 9
---
# Kobe Bryant

## Profile

Professional basketball player (1978–2020), 5-time NBA champion with the Los Angeles Lakers, known publicly for the **"Mamba Mentality"** — an extreme-ownership approach to preparation and performance.

Canonical reference: https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bryanko01.html

## Role in This Source

Cited as the **ultimate exemplar of an extreme internal locus of control** ([[concept-high-agency]]). Bryant famously reframed nervousness before a big game not as an uncontrollable feeling, but as a hard data point indicating a lack of preparation — something he could control by practicing more.

## Connections in This Vault

- Source of the reframing in [[contrarian-nervousness-as-data]]
- Speaker paraphrases him in [[quote-kobe-nervousness]]
- Embodies the [[concept-high-agency]] orientation

## Verification

Enrichment confirms the paraphrase aligns with Bryant's documented public interviews about preparation displacing emotion.