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Every night, my son watches the same Kanye West collection of interviews. Tonight, instead of telling him to turn it off or put in headphones, I decided to listen.

Using an app called VideoNotes, I captured a few thoughts that actually made sense.

Kanye West Motivational Thoughts For Creatives

Published on Nov 06, 2015

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Motivational Thoughts

For Creatives, Inspired by Kanye West
Every night, my son watches the same Kanye West collection of interviews. Tonight, instead of telling him to turn it off or put in headphones, I decided to listen.

Using an app called VideoNotes, I captured a few thoughts that actually made sense.
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I always feel like I can do anything.

This was my son's favorite statement. He said that this motivates him to continue to push even when he wants to quit sometimes,

For the record, I've always told him this but I guess it sounds different coming from Kanye.
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The main thing that people are controlled by is their perception of themselves.

We all have within us the potential to be great but often times, we hold ourselves back because of our own fears and self doubt.

Why do we do this?
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Create and make mistakes in front of people.

When you create, nothing is perfect because everything should be a new risk. This is ok. Mistakes are human. We should make these much more and out loud!
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Don't allow yourself to be boxed in to someone else's idea of who you are.

Be you no matter what...not who others think you should be
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The time is now to be okay to be great. The time is now to be the greatest you.

Greatness is within us all. What are we waiting for?

We're not always in the position we want to be at. We're constantly growing, making mistakes and actualizing our dreams.

Growth is about exactly this. We'll never be exactly where we want to be as long as we are always focused on growing and being better.
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I know exactly what I want to do. I know what I'm up against.

Fight for your dreams regardless of what the world has to say

If you ain't trying to help me then you're hurting me.

For many young males, this idea haunts me.

The time is now to express & for people to believe in themselves.

What are you waiting for?
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I'm a creative genius and there really is no way to word that. For me to say that I wasn't a genius...I'd be lying to myself.
Kanye West