Academy award winning actor, Matthew McConaughey brings an unconventional memoir. It is filled with sharp stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. Also a love letter to life and a guide to catching more green lights. Further realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
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, to have less stress, to have fun, to hurt people less, get hurt less, to have meaning in life and 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. Additionally 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 greenlights.’
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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. This 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 caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.
Hopefully, it’s 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.
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