Greenlights, Hardcover Book, By: Matthew McConaughey

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.

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. 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. The short dust jacket included with this hardcover edition is an intentional design choice.

• Books Author: Matthew McConaughey
• Number Of Pages: 304
• Language: English
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Books Category: Biography & Memoirs
• Book Format: Hardcover
• Books_ISBN: 0593139135
• Other Feature 2: Weight: 516 grams
• Other Feature 3: Size: 162 x 224 x 25 mm
• Publication Date: October 20, 2020