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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Over two million copies sold! From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN
“Unflinchingly honest and remarkably candid, Matthew McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know-how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges—how to get relative with the inevitable—you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching green lights.”
So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. Th
is is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caught, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.
Hopefully, it’s the medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.
It’s a love letter. To life.
It’s also a guide to catching more green lights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
Good luck.
About the Author
Matthew David McConaughey (born November 4, 1969) is an American actor and producer. He first gained notice for his supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993), which was considered by many to be his breakout role. He considers himself a storyteller by occupation and an aspiring orchestral conductor. He is the brand ambassador for Lincoln Motor Company, a minority owner of the Major League Soccer club Austin FC and creator of his favorite bourbon on the planet, Wild Turkey Longbranch.
McConaughey married Camila Alves on June 9, 2012, in Austin, Texas where they reside currently, and have three children together. He confirmed in March 2021 that he is considering running for governor of Texas in 2022.
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Rating: 4.7/5
Author: Matthew McConaughey
Publisher: Crown (First Edition)
Publishing Date: October 20, 2020
Edition Language: English
Genre: Actor & Entertainer Biographies, Rich & Famous Biographies, Success Self-Help
ISBN-10: 0593139135
ISBN-13: 978-0593139134
Pages: 304 (Hardcover)
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