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. You should definitely listen to the audiobook McConaughey’s narration brings depth to the text, and I don’t think I would have liked it as much if I had read the printed copy. McConaughey is an interesting character and knows exactly how to tell a story. Have you ever watched Matthew McConaughey’s Lincoln car commercials where he waxes philosophical in his slight Texas drawl? Apparently, that’s his actual personality. McConaughey poured over decades of his diaries to share the highs and lows of his life and the funny stories that shaped him along the way. Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey offers a memoir on his approach to getting the most satisfaction out of life.
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