Kobe Bryant once gave retirees life advice when their income dries up — what the NBA legend did for himself

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Kobe Bryant once gave retirees life advice when their income dries up — what the NBA legend did for himself

Kobe Bryant once gave retirees life advice when their income dries up — what the NBA legend did for himself

Kobe Bryant, the iconic Los Angeles Lakers ********* guard, redefined basketball with his unmatched work ethic. After a 20-year career, Bryant had managed to accumulate over $600 million, according to

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. That was enough to allow the young athlete to retire early in 2016.

In an interview with CNBC that year, Bryant explained that the biggest challenge for him after retiring was finding his next passion.

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“What comes next?” he asked. Here’s why the multimillionaire believed it was so important to pursue new ventures — and why his second chapter in business was what he hoped he was remembered for after his ******.

What comes next?

Despite his immense fortune, Bryant was acutely aware of the fact that financial success is never guaranteed. “Once you retire, you don’t have that source of income that’s coming in, right?” he said on

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. “So even if you saved over a 15-year career, if your spending habits remain the same, eventually that well is going to run dry.”

Nevertheless, Bryant was determined to ensure that his post-retirement ventures had less to do with making money and more to do with what he was genuinely passionate about.

“The question needs to be, ‘What comes next? What can I do? What is my passion?’” he said. “Not where I can create the most value or generate the most revenue. But what is my next passion? When you find the next passion everything else will make sense, but that’s the hardest part for us [retired athletes].”

Despite the challenge, Bryant eventually found ventures he was as passionate about as taking jump shots on the basketball court. In the few years between his retirement and untimely ****** in 2020, the “****** Mamba” had already set up a $100 million venture capital fund, pursued several investments and won an Oscar for screenwriting and narrating the short film “Dear Basketball.”

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Lessons for non-NBA legends

For most investors and savers, retirement is the ultimate goal. However, few people make

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of life.

Data suggests that Bryant’s approach is justified. Retirees should focus on not running out of money and working on something they’re really passionate about.

A significant 47% of retired Americans say their living expenses are higher than they anticipated, according to a survey from

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. And 68% of these retirees rated outliving their assets as one of the top concerns they face.

Meanwhile, another

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by NewRetirement, found that the top challenges facing retirees included missing work, getting bored and feeling irrelevant.

It seems that the key to a truly blissful retirement is to find a source of income from a personal passion.

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from side gigs or passion projects is now more common. Nearly 1-in-5 Americans

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in 2023, double the ratio from 1987, according to

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.

While there is a

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of running out of money in retirement, it can be avoided by setting yourself up with a

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— including what you’ll do to find satisfaction and motivation. With that established, you’ll not only have the funds to enjoy a comfortable retirement, you can rest assured that you’ll be setting yourself up for the richest kind of retirement of all.

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