Oprah, intuition, intuition and, er…, intuition?
This article at abc7chicago.com speaks of Oprah’s appearance at a Chicago Entrepreneurial Women’s Conference. A rare public appearance brought about a spate of reports, of which this one is just a random selection.
Now Oprah is pretty high rating material, so any appearance or public utterance is going to get noticed. In this article, the reporter has obviously got carried away in the fervid atmosphere of the moment. The reason for saying this is because of the following paragraph:
“Oprah Winfrey, sharing her secrets of success Wednesday, says there are three major reasons she is who she is today: intuition, her ability to feel what is right, and allowing that to be the strongest guide in her life. Her appearance was part talk show, part comedy routine, and to the crowd, 100 percent inspirational.”
I don’t like to be picky, but aren’t those three things essentially the same thing (OK, two things)? Intuition is the ability to feel what is right. The tricky part, as has been said before, is following it. Well, if ever there was a guru for following your intuition, then it is going to be Oprah.
The key, I suppose, is that Oprah is saying that her use of intuition has led her to become extremely successful (let’s not beat about the bush here, successful=wealthy). Now if she can say it out loud in public and be thought of as inspirational, it should be easier for the rest o us to do the same.
I didn’t notice any reports of skeptics hissing and moaning that intuition isn’t real and can’t be proved.
It seems that to silence critics, just announce that you are incredibly wealthy and that you owe it all to intuition. Now, that is something we can all aspire to, can’t we?
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