HOW THE KING OF POP MANIFESTED HIS FAME.
âI look in the mirror, and I would say over and over to myself⊠Iâd take a deep breath, put my feet together, raise myself erect, strong like a⊠a hero warrior, and Iâd say, âBiggest-selling album of all time, greatest seller,â over and over to my mind, and look in my eyes. And Iâd mean it⊠I wouldnât accept anything unless this was exactly what I wanted. My attitude was: I want the biggest-selling album of all times, to break records, to do phenomenal work.â â Michael Jackson.
thereâs something almost unsettling about how precise that is. is it just me, or?
not dreamy, not vague, not âi hope this works out.â
a young Michael Jackson standing in front of a mirror, not just seeing himself, but rehearsing a future until it stopped feeling like a fantasy and started feeling like fact.
in 1979, at just 21, came alive MJâs manifesto. he wrote about becoming something âmagic,â about shedding the limits people had already placed on him and stepping into a version of himself that didnât exist yet, at least not in the world everyone else could see. but to him, it already did.
and he didnât treat it like a cute idea, rather obsessed over it, repeated it until it burned into him, writing â100 millionâ on mirrors so that every glance forced him to face the standard he set for himself.
with persistence like that, reality caught up.
âThrillerâ didnât just succeed, everyone knows that.. it rewrote what success even looked like. it became the best-selling album of all time, moving tens of millions of copies globally, breaking records that, decades later, are still standing.
a direct echo of something he had already decided years before.
MJ would also lie by the pool in silence, letting ideas come to him, describing it almost like tuning into something beyond himself. he spoke about asking god for inspiration, about feeling like ideas were moving through him, and if he didnât claim them, someone else would. he even named Prince as someone he felt in quiet competition with, like creativity itself was a current you had to catch before it passed you by.
call it imagination, call it discipline, he called it magic.
he didnât wait to believe it after it happened.
he believed it until it had no choice but to happen !!
and if MJ can do it, so can you. cue the receipts!
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