Reese Witherspoon is an Academy Award-winning American actress who has also made a foray into film production. Written with candor, humor, and profound insight and humility, the uniquely McConaughey Greenlightsis an unconventional portrait of an unconventional artist and a wise road map to navigating a life of more greenlights-one that recognizes that the red and yellow lights eventually turn green, too. From growing up as an adventurous kid in a tough-love Texas home of rule breakers, to revelatory journeys to Australia, Peru, and Mali, to his early days in Hollywood and meteoric rise to fame, McConaughey shares how his life experiences have instilled in him the importance of competent values, the power of new experiences, and, as he puts it, “either changing your reality or changing how you see it.” In Greenlights, readers will learn about many of the adventures and formative moments in McConaughey’s life, and the sense of meaning he’s found through his philosophy of the same name. Greenlights is an album and a record of what he has seen and learned along the way-“my sights and seens, felts and figured outs, cools and shamefuls.” He found not only stories, questions, truths, and affirmations, but also a reliable theme. Matthew McConaughey has kept a diary for thirty-five of his fifty years, and recently worked up the courage to take those writings into solitary confinement and read through them. Adventures that have been significant, enlightening, and funny, sometimes because they were meant to be but mostly because they didn’t try to be.” “This is not a traditional memoir, or an advice book, but rather a playbook based on adventures in my life. Inspiring memoir and how-to from one of the great outlaw philosophers and artists of our time.” Ryan Holiday, author of The Daily Stoic Recommend it highly enough.” John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, co-author of Conscious “It shouldn’t surprise you that this book is good, but it will surprise you just how good it is. Wise self-help guide, an inspiring argument for love and family, and a candid tale of spiritual and personal discovery. 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 “Greenlights is many different books at once: an entertaining autobiography, a delightful adventure story, a very funny comedy, a Wonderful, Greenlights is an inspired memoir that celebrates the idea that it’s the journey, not the destination, that will fulfill us.” Michael Connelly, author of Fair Warning “Unflinchingly honest and remarkably candid, McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did-and This is a wildly unexpected and delightful book you can’t just read, you have to experience.” Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October “A Renaissance man on the big screen, McConaughey shows he is the same on the page. He attacks life with an exhilaratingįerocity. It seemed to take off.“Matthew McConaughey is a talented actor and a fine writer, but a total genius at living. That put in my place many times.’ I think they were able to feel like they were looking me in the eye, and I was looking them in the eye. “And I think, what I’ve heard from people saying is, you know, ‘Look, you were so brutally honest about the successes, the failures, the smiles and the tears. “I’ve had people come to me and say, ‘Look, it laid out a path for me, a different way of looking at my life where I’ve been and where I’m going,'” Matthew McConaughey shared. He explained that this component was both shocking and eye-opening to his readers, giving them a new perspective on life. According to the Texas native, there was one element that caught and kept his audience’s attention – complete and unapologetic honesty. His book Greenlights took off as soon as it hit the shelves and has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for a full year now.ĭespite all of his success as an actor, producer and director, McConaughey didn’t quite expect his book to be such quick and constant success. Last year, Matthew McConaughey added “memoir author” to his long list of credits.
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