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Darrah, where we make the deep relatable
and translatable into your life.
Did you say you can tell us the Oprah
story? Because I'd love to hear it!
Yeah, Oprah told me this a very long time
ago.
She said that when she was a young reporter,
maybe late teens,
and she was
freelancing in Chicago.
And she got a call to go interview somebody
who was going to be actually sent...
who was sentenced to death.
And he was going to
be executed in two days.
And so she asked him a lot of questions,
and at the end
of the interview this man who was going
to be executed in two days,
he said "so how did I do"?
And so she kind of was
intrigued by that because...
here he was going to be executed in two days,
he wanted to know how he performed in the interview.
In other words he wanted to be validated.
Then she said that, that
happened to her repeatedly.
Every time she interviewed somebody,
they asked her,
"how did I do"?
It happened with
George Bush Senior, George Bush Jr.,
it happened with Clinton, it happened with, even Obama.
Everybody that she interviewed.
Then she
realized that that's what people want.
They want validation.
She changed the way...
she did interviews.
She gave them validation.
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