Greenlights

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From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir stuffed with raucous tales, outlaw knowledge, and classes discovered the laborious method about residing with better satisfaction.

“Unflinchingly sincere and remarkably candid, Matthew McConaughey’s e-book invitations us to grapple with the teachings of his life as he did – and to see that the purpose was by no means to win, however to grasp.” (Mark Manson, creator of The Delicate Artwork of Not Giving a F*ck)

I’ve been on this life for 50 years, been making an attempt to work out its riddle for 42, and been protecting diaries of clues to that riddle for the final 35. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, issues that made me marvel, and issues that made me snort out loud. The way to be honest. The way to have much less stress. The way to have enjoyable. The way to damage individuals much less. The way to get damage much less. The way to be a great man. The way to have that means in life. The way to be extra me. 

Lately, I labored up the braveness to sit down down with these diaries. I discovered tales I skilled, classes I discovered and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what issues, some nice images, and an entire bunch of bumper stickers. I discovered a dependable theme, an strategy to residing that gave me extra satisfaction, on the time, and nonetheless: If you understand how, and when, to cope with life’s challenges – learn how to get relative with the inevitable – you may take pleasure in a state of success I name “catching greenlights”. So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this e-book: an album, a file, a narrative of my life to date. That is 50 years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets whereas making an attempt to bounce between the raindrops. Hopefully, it’s drugs that tastes good, a few aspirin as an alternative of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars while not having your pilot’s license, going to church with out having to be born once more, and laughing by way of the tears. It’s a love letter. To life. It’s additionally a information to catching extra greenlights – and to realizing that the yellows and reds finally flip inexperienced, too. Good luck.