Your Life Changes When Your Beliefs Do with Shawn Achor and Oprah
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How did Oprah introduce the link between beliefs and success?
This episode of the Oprah Podcast is presented by our fantastic partners at The Farmer's Dog. We saw a TikTok with 17 million views of a young woman who was crashing out.
You want me to be honest? I'm angry. I'm mad. I'm mad because I care more about you than you care about me. And no matter how much I try to let go of it and give it to God, it's still so heavy.
Wow. You were having a day. I was. You were having a day. I was.
Beliefs are more powerful than I think we give them credit for. Yeah.
You wrote a whole book, so you give them a lot of credit.
You're actually giving them a lot of credit. There's lots of definitions of belief. Mine is just a simple one. It's the lens to which you view the world.
What advice do you have to this generation of people who are dating? who have no belief that finding true love is real.
That question is going to him, not to me. I know this for sure. You do not become what you wish for. You do not become what you want. You do not become even what you aspire to. You become exactly what you believe is possible. Okay, so Forbes was doing a list on 250 of the greatest self-made people in the country.
And guess who's number one?
Guess who's number one?
Now, I usually don't, honest to goodness, I usually don't care about these things because a person just sent me, another person who's on the list, who sent me the list. And they said, oh, I'm so happy to be on this list with you. And I said, what list is it? Oh, it's the Forbes list. Now, what's great about this list, it's about the people who are the self-made people in the country. And also, one of the ways they measured it is the distance that you've come from where you were to where you are. And this makes me want to cry because... It's in such a long way from Kosciuszko, Dirt Road, Mississippi to here. It's like it's another planet, born to a teen mother, poverty, Mississippi, racism, misogynism, sexism, all of that stuff.
But I will tell you this. That's why this show is so important. It never occurred to me in all the successes that I've had that I wouldn't be successful. It never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful. And the reason it never occurred to me is because of what we're talking about today, your beliefs. Because from the time I was that little girl in rural Mississippi on my grandmother's back porch, screen porch, and her, y'all who know me know you've heard this story. She was hanging out the clothes on the line because she was a domestic worker. and would bring the sheets home to boil them in the big black pot because we didn't have washing machines. And she was boiling the sheets in the pot and taking them out and putting them on the line.
And she said, Oprah Gale, you better watch me because one day you're going to have to do this for yourself. And I could feel inside myself that the Forbes list was coming. It would take 70 years. No. Of course, I didn't know one darn thing about a Forbes list, but I could feel inside myself that I am not going to be hanging clothes on a line and boiling them in a pot. Because I believed that this is the belief that has carried me my whole life. I believed that I was God's child. because I would sit in the service every Sunday, and I would listen to the preacher say, you're God's child. And because I didn't have a father, didn't know who my father was at the time, I didn't know my father until I was seven, eight years old, I thought that God was actually my father.
And therefore, Jesus was my brother. And that we were just all in the family together. And that through God, all things are possible. So I actually believed that. So in every endeavor, every contest I was in, every speaking engagement, when I moved to Baltimore, when I got the job there, when I got my first job at 16, When I moved to Chicago and everybody said, Chicago is the most racist place you can ever go for a job, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't get the job because I was a woman or because of the color of my skin. I thought if I don't get the job, it's because they don't like me.
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