22 year old Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association is widely acknowledged as one of the great young players in the game today, earning millions of dollars, and with the world at his feet. And yet, last summer, in the off season, when he could have been off on vacation doing many other things and resting on his laurels, Kobe decided to stay in L.A. and work out every single day in the gym. But he didn’t just work out, he disciplined himself to practice 2,000 jump shots, (yes that is 2000!!!) every single day.