The World Motivation
When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.
“When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.”
— Jidenna · Excellence
When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.
My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.
It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.
Does Martin Luther King really want his birthday commercialized?
My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.
The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.
I'm a person who values excellence, freedom and liberation.
We sometimes forget how fortunate we are - the excellence of our higher education system being a good example.