Oprah Winfrey Urges Students To Trust Their Instincts At Graduation 6/16/08

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey told 4,700 graduates at California's Stanford University to trust their instincts during a rousing commencement address on Sunday (15Jun08). Winfrey told students to trust their feelings like "a GPS system for life".

She said, "When you are doing the work you are meant to do, it feels right. Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. "Every wrong decision was the result of me not listening to my voice.

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it." And the TV talk show host confessed to not following her instincts when building her scandal-hit school for girls in Africa.

Winfrey told the graduates she was too busy planning the school's look when she should have been paying more attention to the employees - one was charged with abusing girls at the academy last year (07).

Winfrey revealed, "I had been paying attention to all of the wrong things. I built a school from the outside in, instead of from the inside out." The commencement address at Stanford was extra special for Winfrey because her best friend Gayle King's daughter, the media mogul's goddaughter, was among the graduates.