you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.
make i just dey pretend say i sabi wetin i dey do, from there i go meet people wey sabi wetin them dey do, so i go sabi wetin them dey do, then i go finally sabi wetin i dey do