“The struggle of my life created empathy”

“My idea of heaven is having baked potato and someone to share with it”

While the assumption exists that success for Oprah equates to wealth and fame, her autobiography highlights that in fact personal growth, empowerment and philanthropy are the main driving forces in her life. Oprah is driven by a desire to understand herself completely and live her life to the fullest and to make this a priority and a reality for as many other people as possible which is aligned with Maslow’s human needs of motivation theory.

Oprah’s mission on the increase of the well-being of humankind. Her influence in this domain has been dubbed The Oprah Effect, referring to her jois de vivre spreading to her all her viewers.  

Philanthropists care about people and they actively look for ways to help their fellow human mates, it’s unarguable that philanthropists belong to the self-actualized level in Maslow’s 5-level pyramid, while Oprah (and other philanthropist) could reach also the transcendence level in Maslow’s 8 level model.  It’s easy to see how her basic needs, physiological and safety needs were lacking in her childhood, although in a later stage, when she already fulfilled those basic levels, she was actively seeking the possibility to help others to fulfil their own needs. She represents the theory’s basic principle, so that humans are basically good, and that people are motivated to reach their own potential even despite an eventually traumaticchildhood.

 

 

While her biography would not

TH Oprah effect has the biggest influence has a name: The Oprah Effect. 

 

Agreeableness 

 Highlevels of agreeableness are evident throughout forgivingness, gentleness, flexibility and patience. As Oprah put it herself, realization that someone’s misdoings affects her life in the present moment, took her to the next level of being a better person. Furthermore, shecreated Oprah’s Angel Network, which sponsors charitable initiatives worldwide, and is engaged in numerous other philanthropic activities. High levels of flexibility and patience are evident throughout her interviewing skills: dealing with the delicate issuesin a thoughtful way. 

Introversion?

Oprah Winfrey: “Align Your Personality With Your Purpose”

Honesty-Humility

Despite being one of the 500 richest people in the world at the moment, on a number of occasions she stated that the reason she has been so financially successful is that her focus has never been money, but the significance of her aim

 

Psychoanalytic

For example, mythology offers many examples of the "dual mother" narrative, according to which a child has a biological mother and a divine mother. Therefore, argues Jung, Freudian psychoanalysis would neglect important sources for unconscious ideas, in the case of a patient with neurosis around a dual-mother image.^{[1 (Wikipedia)}

Superego-ID-Ego

 

Oprah’s mission on the increase of the well-being of humankind. Philanthropists care about people and they actively look for ways to help their fellow human mates, it’s unarguable that philanthropists belong to the self-actualized level in Maslow’s 5-level pyramid, while Oprah (and other philanthropist) could reach also the transcendence level in Maslow’s 8 level model.  

 

It’s easy to see how her basic needs, physiological and safety needs were lacking in her childhood, although in a later stage, when she already fulfilled those basic levels, she was actively seeking the possibility to help others to fulfil their own needs. She represents the theory’s basic principle, so that humans are basically good, and that people are motivated to reach their own potential even despite an eventually traumaticchildhood.

 

The survivor

“Turn your wounds into wisdom”

 

The Entrepreneur 

The persona and HEXACO 

 

The Survivor/Empowered Woman 

Entrepreneurship, philanthropy, empowerment 

 

Survivor: empowerment, resilience, overcoming, personal growth, stoicism, endurance, philosophy/philosopher, emotional resilience, strength,