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. 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.” 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. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. 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. “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 But, he has figured out a thing or two about the art of livin’.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 McConaughey doesn’t claim to get it all right, to be making straight A’s in all areas of his life. They wanted to know more about how you recognize and respond to green, yellow and red lights as you navigate life’s highway. After the success of his book “Greenlights,” McConaughey was inundated with people asking him to go even deeper into the Greenlight method. It’s not a movie, it’s not a book tour, it’s not an interview (or anything in between).

This isn’t your ordinary Matthew McConaughey experience.

In this very special episode, Lewis meets with Matthew McConaughey to discuss life, love, his prolific acting career, and his new project – The Art Of Livin’.

University of Texas in 1992,' McConaughey said. 'Those 10 goals, I wrote those down in the top bunk in the Delt house. Not only does Matthew McConaughey (University of Texas at Austin, 1992) share six truths, but he also discusses the list of 10 life goals he wrote when he was an undergraduate and how important it is to write down your dreams and goals.

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