Kobe & Jordan’s Trainer Tim Grover on the Dark Side of Winning and What It Really Takes to Be Great (Fan Fav)

What It Covers

Tim Grover, trainer to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, explains how winning requires embracing dark energy, staying down after losses to learn, and using controlled rage as a tool for sustained greatness.

Key Questions Answered

• •Learning from losses: After defeat, stay down for minutes, hours, or days to understand why you lost before getting back up. Jumping up immediately means repeating the same mistakes without gaining wisdom, strength, or resilience.
• •Weaknesses versus flaws: Weaknesses can be improved or compensated for by surrounding yourself with people whose strengths match your gaps. Flaws like obsession or relentless competitiveness are actually gifts that enable winning, not problems to fix.
• •Process over emotion: The process is nonnegotiable and must be executed without letting feelings dictate action. Grover counted Michael Jordan's steps and jump patterns game after game to tailor daily workouts, balancing overused muscle groups with precision.
• •Dark side energy: Anger becomes controlled rage when channeled properly. New days start at midnight in darkness, so using dark energy for new beginnings is natural. Winners tap into both light and dark energy depending on what each moment requires.