ليس من الضروري أن تدون أفكارك الخاصة جداً في كل يوم، ولكن يجب أن تتأكد من كتابة هذه الأفكار على الأقل ثلاث مرات أسبوعيا. بعد ذلك، اقرأ ما كتبته كل شهر أو شهرين، سيساعدك هذا في أن تصبح أكثر إدراكا لذاتك، وترى الخطوط العامة لأفكارك وسلوكك، سيساعدك هذا أيضا، على معرفة مدى تقدمك في بناء تقديرك لذاتك. يجب أن تحتفظ بهذه الفكرة في مكان آمن.. يمكن إغلاقه وله مفتاح أيضًا.. لا تكتب هذه الأفكار وكأن شخصًا غيرك سيقرؤها، أنت لا تكتب هذه الأفكار لكي تنشرها وتحصل منها على عائد! إنها مجرد تدوين وتدريب يساعدك على النمو الذاتي، ويجب أن يظل خاصًا جدًا وطي الكتمان؟
Oprah Gail Winfrey, also known mononymously as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the 20th century and was once the world's only black billionaire. By 2007, she was often ranked as the most influential woman in the world. Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teenage years and became pregnant at 14; her son was born prematurely and died in infancy. Winfrey was then sent to live with the man she calls her father, Vernon Winfrey, a barber in Nashville, Tennessee, and landed a job in radio while still in high school. By 19, she was a co-anchor for the local evening news. Winfrey's often emotional, extemporaneous delivery eventually led to her transfer to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company. Credited with creating a more intimate, confessional form of media communication, Winfrey popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue. By the mid-1990s, Winfrey had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, mindfulness, and spirituality. Though she has been criticized for unleashing a confession culture, promoting controversial self-help ideas, and having an emotion-centered approach, she has also been praised for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others. Winfrey also emerged as a political force in the 2008 presidential race, with her endorsement of Barack Obama estimated to have been worth about one million votes during the 2008 Democratic primaries. In the same year, she formed her own network, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). In 2013, Winfrey was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. In 1994, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Then in October, she finished the Marine Corps Marathon in less than four and a half hours. She has received honorary doctorate degrees from multiple universities. Winfrey has won many awards throughout her career, including 19 Daytime Emmy Awards (including the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Chairman's Award), two Primetime Emmy Awards (including the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award), a Tony Award, a Peabody Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award awarded by the Academy Awards, in addition to two competitive Academy Award nominations. Winfrey was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
وغلاف الكتاب الأصلي صورة تتدرج فيها ألوان حالمة، بينما وضعت صورة أوبرا وينفري على الغلاف العربي. اقتنيت الكتاب لأني وجدته بسعر مخفض مع مجموعة أخرى من الكتب التي لم أمانع تجربة قراءتها بدافع الخروج من منطقة الراحة، ولأني أردت قراءة سير ذاتية وأفكار لمشاهير وضعوا بصمتهم في العالم. وأوبرا وينفري إعلامية متفوقة في مجالها، لامست قلوب الكثيرين. لكن للأسف الترجمة سيئة، يتحول السياق من المذكر إلى المؤنث والعكس أحيانًا فتضطر لقراءة الجملة مرتين، وثمة أخطاء مطبعية كثيرة.
سأدون ما أعجبني من الكتاب في مكان ما، وأنقله إلى قطاع آخر من الحياة علّه يوصل رسالة لأحدهم
المضمون جيد جدًا، لكن الطرح يفتقد إلى السلاسة. النجمة الإضافية للمحتوى.