The Mindset Behind Kobe, Venus, and Becky Lynch
episodePreviously titled “How To Turn Self-Doubt Into Your Superpower - The Mindset of Champions” — renamed by the publisher on Sep 3, 2026
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What could you do with some extra cash this holiday season? Just save your receipt and you'll get 50 bonus entries. Let's make money easy together. Enter right now at lewishouse.com slash win. Welcome to this special masterclass. We've brought some of the top experts in the world to help you unlock the power of your life through this specific theme today. It's going to be powerful. So let's go ahead and dive in. The thing I love the most about you is that you really care about other human beings. Your heart is so big, even though you've been known for this focus mentality that is just almost psycho in some ways, but you care deeply about human beings. And I think that's why so many people love you as well.
So I want to acknowledge you for your kindness and your generosity towards humanity. My first question for you is I'm curious about Who was your greatest teacher growing up? Because you had an interesting childhood being in Italy for a while, coming back to Philadelphia, I think it was. Who was the greatest teacher for you in those early days?
That's funny. I had a lot of them. My parents were great. Growing up, they instilled in me the importance of imagination, of curiosity, and understanding that, okay, if you want to accomplish something, I'm not just going to sit here and say, yes, you can do whatever you want. Yes, you can. But you have to also put in the work to get there, right? So they taught me that at a really early age, man. And when you grow up as a kid, thinking that the world is your oyster, all things are possible if you put in the work to do it, you know, you grew up having that fundamental belief.
Yeah. Who was more influential for you, your father or mother?
Both were influential at different points. My mom was there on a daily basis. My father was really influential at a really critical time where I had a summer where I played basketball when I was like 10 or 11 years old in a very prominent summer league in Philadelphia called the Sunny Hill League. Where my father played, my uncle played, and they were like all-time greats and stuff.
11, 10, 11.
You're playing against other 10, 11-year-olds? You didn't score once? Not one. Were you in the game? I was in the game. How did you not score? Because I was terrible.
Really? Yeah. At 10 or 11 years old, you were that terrible. Awful. I mean, you know, and I had these big knee pads on because I was growing really fast. I have socks all the way up here. And I had like the high top face. Skinny. Like skinny. And I scored not a free throw, not a nothing, not a lucky shot, not a breakaway layup, zero points. And I remember crying about it and being upset about it. And my father just gave me a hug and said, listen, Whether you score zero or score 60, I'm going to love you no matter what. Wow. That is the most important thing that you can say to a child. Because from there, I was like, OK, it gives me all the confidence in the world to fail. I have the security there. But with that, I'm scoring 60. Let's go. Right, right, right.
And from there, I just went to work. I just stayed with it. I kept practicing, kept practicing, kept practicing.
Is that when you think the mentality of hard work started to come in for you at that age when you failed so miserably, I guess, that summer?
I think that's when the idea of understanding a long term view became important because I wasn't going to catch these kids in a week. I wasn't going to catch them in a year. Right. So that's when I sat down and said, OK, this is going to take some thought. All right. What I want to work on first. All right. Shooting. All right. Let's knock this out. Let's focus on this half a year, six months. Do nothing but shoot. All right. After that. All right. Creating your own shot. You focus. So you start. I started creating a menu of things. When I came back the next summer, I was a little bit better. Right?
And then you'd be like, I've got my jump shot from 15. I've got my- Yeah, I got my jump shot from 15.
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