Alan Stein Jr.

If the stress is overwhelming, then you'll be completely debilitated.

If I was completely overwhelmed with stress right now, this wouldn't be much of an interview.

Mm-hmm.

However, if there was zero stress, I'd probably be bored and there wouldn't be much of an interview.

So we want just enough to keep us sharp.

It's very similar to fear.

You know, fear in and of itself keeps us safe.

We want to have some fear.

If not, we just walk in the middle of traffic or we just juggle knives or do something foolish.

But if we have too much fear, then we become paralyzed and we can't actually do anything.

So yeah, these things help.

They help keep us sharp.

So we want to have a little bit, be on a little bit of edge for the things that mean the most to us.

Oh man, it's so awesome to be here.

My pleasure.

Yes.

Sure.

Well, I mean, it absolutely changed my life.

So I had a chance to meet Kobe in 2007.

It was the first ever Nike Skills Academy, and they were building a series of camps around their signature players, who, of course, at that time, Kobe Bryant was atop of that mountain and flew out to Los Angeles here, La La Land, to work that event.