Summary of What I know For Sure: by Oprah Winfrey | Includes Analysis

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What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey - A 15-minute Instaread Summary

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Instaread, Inc
• Release date: May 17, 2016
• ISBN: 9781683782063

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In 1998, a question from film critic, Gene Siskel, started Oprah Winfrey on a journey to determine what she knew about herself and the values that were important in her life. Winfrey discovered on this journey, and learned to build her life around, the values of joy, resilience, connection, gratitude, possibility, awe, clarity and power. In this book, she explains each concept, applies it to her own life, and offers inspiration to help others in their own journey to find the values that are important in their own lives.

Winfrey defines joy as the ability to savor peak experiences, as psychologist Abraham Maslow famously termed them. Winfrey calls them her ‘ahhh’ moments. She gives examples, such as dancing in Tina Turner’s show.

She learned the next value, resilience, the hard way during her childhood as an unwanted child. Not only was she isolated, she was abused. She came to understand that she must give herself the love she never received as a child, and turn her mistakes into opportunities for growth.

Even with this understanding, Winfrey found it difficult to make connections with others because of her feelings of isolation and worthlessness. She has learned, however, that people want most of all to feel connected and be heard. Good friends, neighbors