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| Writer | Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House |
| Publish Date | 2023 |
| Pages | 226 |
| File Size | 2 MB |
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One of the many things I got from doing The Oprah Winfrey Show for twenty-five years was a front-row seat to unhappiness. Of every, and I mean every, kind. My guests included people devastated by tragedy, betrayal, or deep disappointment. Angry people and people who hold grudges.
People are doing everything in their power to numb their unhappiness, yet they wake up each day feeling unhappy anyway. I also witnessed abundant happiness. People who had found love and friendship. People use their talents and abilities to do good things. And People who reaped the rewards of selflessness and giving, including one person who’d even donated a kidney to a stranger he’d recently met.
People with a spiritual side that brought richer meaning to their lives. People who’d been given a second chance. Where the audience was concerned, the unhappy guests generally provoked empathy; the happy ones, admiration (and maybe a twinge of wistful envy). And then there was a third category of guests that audiences didn’t know what to make of but were genuinely inspired by: people who had every reason to be unhappy and yet were not.
The lemonade-making, silver-linings-finding, bright-side-looking glass-half-fullers. The Mattie Stepaneks is how I came to think of them- Mattie Stepanek being the boy who had a rare and fatal form of muscular dystrophy called dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy, yet managed to find peace in all things and play after every storm.
Build The Life You Want PDF