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Charles Bukowski: Reinvent Yourself (No Leaders Please) Read By Chris Collins

22 Sept 2016 · 2 min

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A short spoken-word piece (YouTube video) in which Chris Collins reads and reflects on themes of self-invention and continual reinvention, urging listeners to reinvent themselves, avoid mediocrity, be self-taught, and accept reality on their own terms. The transcript contains repeated refrains ("Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself") and a brief aside from another speaker about imagination and self-creation.

Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.
Don't swim in the same slough.
Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself. And stay out of the clutches of mediocrity.
I've always thought that each person invented himself for whatever reasons, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he has gone through, that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.
Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself. Change your tone and shape so often that they can never categorize you.
And so I constructed this fucking Tony Robbins guy. I construct him. I created him. He was me, but I built this.
Reinvigorate yourself and accept what is.
But only on the terms that you have invented and reinvented.
Be self taught and reinvent your life because you must.
It is your life.
And its history and the present belong only to you.