Oprah Winfrey Credits Her Success To This One Thing We All Have

I still hadn’t heard a word back from the casting agency about the movie role I’d gone for, months prior, and I was convinced it was because I was fat. In fact, it had to be that. Otherwise, I was perfect for the role. That was the very reason I was now here, cold, crying and running laps around an athletics track, at a ‘fat farm’.

Know who this woman is?

It’s Oprah Winfrey. She gave numerous television interviews with journalists, following the news that she’d been offered to play the part of ‘Sofia’ in the movie “The Color Purple” — Her dream role. Oprah credits, not only scoring the movie role, but also the success of her entire career to something we all have – a brain…

Actually, I lie, she credits ‘positive thinking’ and the law of attraction to her success.

Nothing we don’t all have access to, right? Oprah recalls spending months and months visualising herself being an actress and telling anyone who would listen to her that she was going to find a way to be in that movie. She thought about it non-stop, always with optimism and determination. She even recalls reading lines for ‘Sofia’ at her audition, alongside her on screen Husband, “Harpo” and realising that “Harpo” is “Oprah” spelt backwards.

Mind = Blown.

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