How did you become as good as the likes of Kobe Bryant in your career, what helped you and how did you focus?

https://hbr.org/2019/03/the-feedback-fallacy</a">This is a great article that touches on the issue of excellence and how to achieve it. Basically, double down on things you do well by asking for feedback from others. Do not spend too much time trying to attain excellence in areas where you have shortcomings.

"There’s a story about how legendary Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry turned around his struggling team. While the other teams were reviewing missed tackles and dropped balls, Landry instead combed through footage of previous games and created for each player a highlight reel of when he had done something easily, naturally, and effectively. Landry reasoned that while the number of wrong ways to do something was infinite, the number of right ways, for any particular player, was not. It was knowable, and the best way to discover it was to look at plays where that person had done it excellently. From now on, he told each team member, “we only replay your winning plays.”"