Elite level pattern recognition

Elite level pattern recognition will rewire your brain and make you the genius in every room that you step in. Kobe Bryant got obsessed with great white sharks, not a hobby. His agent find the best cage diving spot on the planet. He went out and studied how they hunt. And later, he said that studying those sharks helped him guard Allen Iverson. Yes, you heard me. Studying sharks helped him guard Iverson. And here's what most people never will. One, the problem lies outside your field. Everybody in basketball was looking at basketball tape. Kobe went to the ocean. Two, look at how things move, not how they are. He wasn't studying the fish, he was studying the predator, how it moves and it attacks. Strip away the surface, grab the pattern underneath, and bring it home. He didn't leave it at the ocean. He brought it to the court and it helped him guard the best scorer alive. Because a pattern you discover and don't use, it's trivia that you hold onto. Kobe called the world his library and most people can't even see past their own bookshelf. Effort adds value. You can look outside of yourself and look outside of your work and come back with something that nobody else can compete with.