Success -- in whatever way you choose to define "success ," because it is a choice -- walks hand in hand with happiness. If you aren't as successful as you'd like to be, you probably aren't as happy as you'd like to be. Oprah Winfrey knows a little about success.
She launched a television network . A magazine. Led the most successful, especially in terms of influence, daytime talk show in history.
In financial terms? She's worth an estimated $3 billion. But she wasn't always happy with her success, at least in terms of how it was built. In 1998, Oprah had booked several white supremacists as guests.
Her goal was to challenge their views and reveal their intolerance. She thought she would use their intolerance to advance the cause of social justice, but during the show, she realized they were using her show to get exposure that would help them recruit new members to their organizations. "After that show," Oprah said , "I went to my producers and said, 'I will never do another show like that.
'" Some time later, an episode of her show focused on marital infidelity. While onstage with his wife and girlfriend, the cheating husband revealed that his girlfriend was pregnant. The hurt and humiliation his wife felt, at that moment, made a huge impact on Oprah.
"I said to my producers, 'Never again will anyone be embarrassed or shamed or humiliated on my watch,'" Oprah said. Hosting a hit show was a "success." So was enjoying critical, commercial, and financial success.
But finding her.
