Originally posted by @taylorallan
via. The Deep Game Forum
“Kobe was balancing his training, NBA schedule, a family, endorsement responsibilities, building his company, and who knows what else.
Elon “balances” running two multi-billion dollar companies as well as a handful of smaller companies.
I don’t know of any hyper-successful people that aren’t actively balancing multiple major responsibilities.
Even the monks I know who meditate ~6-12 hours per day are busy running the monastery, recruiting donations, managing the community living there, teaching, doing chores, etc.
So balancing school with basketball is child’s play.
That’s like productivity / discipline kindergarten.
Ten years from now you’ll look back on these times and marvel at the amount of free time you had.”