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2021 年 9 月，曾在 NBA 打滾 13 年的 Chris Bosh 正式入選奈史密斯籃球名人堂（Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame）。

在演講中，他分享一段往事：

2008 年北京奧運，美國男籃為了奪回失去的榮耀，集結了當時最頂尖的球星，組成「救贖之隊」（Redeem Team）。當時年僅 24 歲的 Chris Bosh，滿懷鬥志地想在這些傳奇前輩面前證明自己。他給自己立下目標：每天都要成為第一個吃早餐的人。

於是，他設了鬧鐘，天還沒亮就起床，換好裝備，準備搶下「最早到」的頭銜。但每次抵達時，Kobe Bryant 早已汗流浹背坐在那，雙腿纏著冰袋 — Kobe 不只早起，還完成一輪高強度訓練。

最令 Chris 感到不可思議的是，Kobe 幾天前才在 NBA 總決賽失利，理應是最疲憊的人；相比之下，Chris 所在的球隊早已休賽數月，他應該是體力最充沛的人，卻依然被 Kobe 的自律和自我要求拉開了差距。

Chris 這才明白：

傳奇不是靠成功定義，而是如何從失敗中反彈。

Legends aren’t defined by their success, they’re defined by how they bounce back from their failures.

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還記得小時候學走路嗎？每個人都是經過無數次「跌倒、再站起來」的過程，最後才學會走路。

曾經有個長輩跟我說：

五歲的小孩可以生氣一整天，十歲可以生氣一小時，三十歲以後，你只能花十分鐘，然後就該繼續往前。

我們的目標，不是避免跌倒，而是縮短跌倒後站起來的時間。能夠快速從低潮中恢復元氣，是人生最重要的能力之一。

在 Nike 這支名為「失敗」（Failure）的廣告中，籃球大帝 Michael Jordan 說道：

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

我在職業生涯中錯失過九千多次出手機會，輸掉將近三百場比賽。有二十六次，隊友把最後一擊交給我，我卻沒投進。我一再失敗、一次又一次，正因如此，我才能成功。

每一次失敗都是實驗，每一個錯誤都是線索。

成功，就是把每一次挫折都變成重新站起來的力量。

P.S. 雖然許文龍會說：「跌倒時，不要急著爬起來，先看看地上有沒有寶貝可以撿。」🤣

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從小到大，Kobe Bryant 一直是我的榜樣。雖然我不會打籃球，但 Kobe 的態度深深激勵著我 — 熱情、執著、自律、鍥而不捨、無所畏懼 — 還有更重要的：每天都要進步（Get better every single day）。

最近很喜歡在中午時邊沖冰水，邊聽 Kobe 的諄諄教誨。每次聽到他的聲音，我都會起雞皮疙瘩，貫穿脊椎那種。

下面是我最喜歡、也經常放在心上提醒自己的幾段話：

關於面對自我與恐懼

The greatest fear you face is yourself, because we all have dreams, and it’s very scary sometimes to accept the dream you have. Because you’re afraid that if you put your heart and soul into it, and you fail. Then how are you going to feel about yourself? So being fearless means putting yourself out there, and going for it, no matter what, go for it—not for anybody else, but for yourself.

最大的恐懼是你自己，因為每個人都有夢想，有時候接受自己的夢想是很可怕的。因為你害怕如果全心投入卻失敗了，那該如何跟自己交代？所以，無所畏懼就是把自己放在前線，並且全力以赴，不是為了別人，而是為了自己。

Doubt is such a strange thing. There’ll be times where you succeed, there are times that you fail. Wasting your time doubting whether you’re going to be successful or not is pointless. You just put one foot in front of the other, you control what you can control, and then you see what the outcome is. If you win, it’s great, you’re going to wake up the next day and do the journey over again. If you lose, it sucks, you still have to wake up the next day and do the journey all over again anyway.

自我懷疑是一件很奇怪的事。有時你會成功，有時你會失敗。花時間懷疑自己會不會成功毫無意義。你只需要一步步往前走，控制你能控制的，掌握你能掌握的，然後看看結果如何。如果贏了，很棒，你隔天還是要起床重新開始這段旅程。如果輸了，很糟，你隔天還是要起床把所有流程再跑一遍。

關於持續小幅進步

The confidence comes from preparation. When the game is on the line, I’m not asking myself to do something I haven’t done thousands of times before. In those moments, if I look like ice-cold or not nervous, it’s because I’ve done it thousands of times before. So it’s just one more time.

自信來自準備。在比賽關鍵時刻，我不會要求自己做沒練習過上千次的事。那一刻，如果我看起來很冷靜、不緊張，是因為我已經做過無數次了，這只是再多一次而已。

The key factor for me wasn’t whether or not I was ready, it’s the fact that if i wasn’t ready, I was determined to figure out how to get ready. And ultimately, even I was ready, I still need to improve anyway. So the work is not going to stop.

關鍵不是我準備好了沒，而是如果沒準備好，我會想辦法讓自己準備好；即使準備好了，我還是要持續進步，所以努力永遠不會停止。

My philosophy was a very simple one: I made a promise to myself that I was going to work that hard every single day. So that when I do retire, I have no regrets. And that was the most important thing for me is to leave no stone unturned. Get better every single day. If I live that way, then overtime, I’d have some that was beautiful. You know if you lived your life to just get better every single day, and do that for 20 years, what do you have?

我的哲學很簡單：我答應自己每天都要很努力。這樣等我退休時，就沒有任何遺憾。如果你用「每天都要更好」這種態度過二十年，擁有甜美的果實不過是時間問題。

The most important thing is that you become the best version of yourself. That is the key. Get better every single day. Are you better today than you were yesterday? If the answer is yes, then you’re on the right track. That’s Mamba Mentality—get better every single day.

最重要的是成為最好的自己。每天都要進步。你今天比昨天更好嗎？如果答案是肯定的，你就在正確的路上。這就是曼巴精神 — 每天都要進步。

At the end of every day, you look at yourself in the mirror and ask your self, ‘Did I get better today?’ If the answer is yes, and you do that for 5 years, 10 years, 15 years. How much better are you going to be? ‘Are you getting better every single day?’, that’s the question. And it’s just taking small steps. You don’t try to get it all done in one day, in one week, in one year. It’s the process of getting better every day, and doing that for a period of years, that then creates the masterpiece.

每天結束時，照鏡子問自己：「我今天有變得更好嗎？」如果答案是有，並且照這樣持續五年、十年、十五年，你能想像自己會變得多厲害？「你每天都有進步嗎？」這才是關鍵所在。一步一步來，不要妄想一天、一週、一年就會完成一切。傑作是長年的努力堆疊、累積出來的。

關於卓越

If you want to accomplish something or do something that a lot of people think is difficult to accomplish, you have to put all your eggs in one basket and there’s no compromise.

如果你想完成一件多數人都覺得很困難的事，你必須把雞蛋全部放在同一個籃子裡，沒有妥協。

If you want to play at an excellent level, if you want to do something excellent, you have to be excellent all the time. It’s a way of life. It’s not just, ‘I show up on Monday and be excellent.’ I don’t work that way. You get to be excellent across the board. That’s how you build habits. When excellence becomes a habit, that’s just who you are.

如果想做出卓越的事，你必須時時刻刻都很卓越。這是一種生活態度，不是「星期一才表現好」而已。你要在各方面都做到最好。當卓越變成習慣，那卓越就只是你這個人原本的樣子而已。

I don’t negotiate with myself. I told myself at 13 that I want to be one of the greatest who have ever played. That’s the deal I made. I shook hands with myself. That is the deal, that is the contract, that is non-negotiable.

我不會和自己討價還價。十三歲時，我就告訴自己要成為史上最偉大的球員之一。這是我和自己立下的約定，這是契約，絕不妥協。

If you’re going to do something, do it with the best of your ability. No matter what it is, if you gonna do it, do it with the best of your ability.

如果你要做一件事，盡全力去做。不管是什麼事，做到最好。

關於心理韌性

What I’ve learned is to always keep going. Always. No matter what happens, the storm eventually ends, and when the storm does end, you want to make sure that you’re ready.

我學到的就是永遠持續前進。無論發生什麼事，風暴終究會過去；當風暴過去時，你要確保自己已經準備就緒。

Rest at the end, not in the middle. And that’s something I always live by. I’m not going to rest, and I’m going to keep on pushing now. There are a lot of answers that I don’t have, even questions that I don’t have, but I’m just going to keep going.

在終點休息，不是在途中。這是我一直奉行的信念。我不會現在休息，我會繼續努力。很多答案我還不知道，甚至連問題都還沒想清楚，但我就是會一直努力下去。

雖然 Kobe 已經在別的星球上了，曼巴精神依舊天天影響著我。

相信他在另一個世界繼續熱愛籃球。

謝謝你，我心目中永遠的英雄 💛💜

— 樺明