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Matthew McConaughey on Catching More Greenlights, the Impermanence of Life, & Writing Your Own Story
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Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: http://bit.ly/matthewmcconaughey398
Matthew McConaughey (IG: @officiallymcconaughey) is an Academy Award-winning actor, married man, a father of three children, and a loyal son and brother.
In October of last year he released Greenlights, an unconventional memoir that was born out of diaries he's been keeping for the last 35 years. It's a guide to catching more greenlights in life and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too. It's also a love letter to life.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The aftermath from the Texas winter storm crisis
- How COVID-19 gave us a new sense of purpose
- Go write your own story
- The restrictions of being a celebrity
- The day Matthew got famous
- Appreciating the moment
- Being the pilot of your choices
- Documenting the existential question of "why?" through journaling
- Write the headline first and living your story
- The art of living
- Fatigue is one of the greatest enemies
- The book that kept Matthew anchored
- How Matthew landed his role in Dazed and Confused
- Creating the character Wooderson
- Three affirmations… alright, alright, alright
- The death of Matthew's dad taught him to just keep livin
- What's your eulogy?
- The impermanence of life
- Chasing our better selves
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