【正文】 e will 39。t be angry with my name wasn39。d grown up not really loving my name, because when you39。re never going to find , I grew up not loving the name, but once I was asked to change it, I thought, well, it is my name and do I look like a Suzie to you? So, I thought, no, it doesn39。m not going to change my if people remember it or not, that39。t like the way I was in 1976, when your boss could call you in and say, “I don39。t like the way you look.” Which, in case some of you in the back, if you can39。t like the way I now I am black and bald and sitting on a pretty even worse than being bald, I really hated, hated, hated being sent to report on other people39。d cover a fire and then I39。d try to give the victims I wouldn39。t read my copy, because something inside me said, this should be , I wanted to get the news as I was giving it to the , sometimes, I wouldn39。t read the copy—because I wanted to be spontaneous—and I39。t know and I39。s not going too should try being at the same time, my dad was saying, “Oprah Gail, this is an opportunity of a better keep that job.” And my boss was saying, “This is the nightly 39。d go home at night and fill up my journals, 39。ve kept a journal since I was 15—so I now have volumes of , I39。d eat my 39。t want to pay out the contract, they put me on a talk show in the moment I sat down on that show, the moment I did, I felt like I39。s where everything that followed for me I got that you39。re meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you39。s how do you know when you39。re supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut right decision I39。ve ever made—has e from my every wrong decision I39。t feel right, don39。s the that lesson alone will save you, my friends, a lot of doubt means don39。ve are many times when you don39。t know what to do, get still, get very still, until you do know what to when you do get still and let your internal motivation be the driver, not only will your personal life improve, but you will gain a petitive edge in the working world as , as Daniel Pink writes in his bestseller, A Whole New Mind, we39。s no longer just the logical, linear, rulesbased thinking that matters, he 39。re doing what we love, when we39。s pretty 39。s not about money, 39。s good for buying having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful you want is money and want your work to be meaning is what brings the real richness to your you really want is to be surrounded by people you trust and treasure and by people who cherish 39。re really , lesson one, follow your it feels right, move it doesn39。t do I want to talk a little bit about failings, because nobody39。s just life39。t have to repeat the you don39。ve found is that difficulties e when you don39。s whisper, because life always whispers to you if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you39。s written this wonderful book called A New Earth that39。t react against a bad situation。t mean giving up。m trying to give South African girls a shot at a future like yours— I spent five years making sure that school would be as beautiful as the wanted every girl to feel her worth reflected in her , I checked every blueprint, I picked every was looking at the grout in between the knew every thread count of the chose every girl from the villages, from nine yet, last fall, I was faced with a crisis I had never was told that one of the dorm matrons was suspected of sexual was, as you can imagine, devastating , I cried—actually, I sobbed—for about half an then I said, let39。that39。d built that school from the outside in, when what really mattered was the inside , it39。s matters most is the sense of integrity, of quality and got that what I know is that the girls came away with something, have emerged from this more resilient and knowing that their voices have their resilience and spirit have given me more than I could ever give to them, which leads me to my final lesson—the one about finding happiness—which we could talk about all day, but I know you have other wacky things to a small topic this is, finding in some ways I think it39。s called “Speech to the Young : Speech to the ProgressToward.” And she says at the end, “Live not for battles won./ Live not for theendofthesong./ Live in the along.” She39。s also saying, be a part of 39。s a lesson that39。s a lesson that Jane and Leland Stanford got and one they39。s death, they had made the founding grant for this great school, pledging to do for other people39。re hurting, you need to help somebody ease their you39。s when you39。s no longer just woowoo softskills 39。s high, a spiritual surge you gain from serving , if you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some when you do good, I hope you strive for more than just the good feeling that service provides, because I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you , whatever field you choose, if you operate from the paradigm of service, I know your life will have more value and you will be was always happy doing my talk show, but that happiness reached a depth of fulfillment, of joy, that I really can39。re an actor, you offer your talent in the way that most inspires you39。ve been called, as so many of you here today getting doctorates and other degrees, to the professions of business, law, engineering, humanities, science, medicine, if you choose to offer your skills and talent in service, when you choose the paradigm of service, looking at life through that paradigm, it turns everything you do from a job into a I know you haven39。ve been enriched in countless 39。t know, but everybody today seems to want to be fame is a follow you to the bathroom, listen to you 39。t matter, they e out and say, “Ohmigod, it39。s the fame trip, so I don39。t have to have a college degree to don39。t have to know about Plato or Aristotle to don39。s theory of relativity to don39。ll all be officially Stanford39。 have the hear