Greenlights: Matthew McConaughey by Amazonundefined

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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. 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.
Recenzja
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
McConaughey is a talented actor and a fine writer, but a total genius at living. He attacks life with an exhilarating ferocity. 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
It shouldn't surprise you that this book is good, but it will surprise you just
how
good it is.
Wise and entertaining, this is an inspiring memoir and how-to from one of the great outlaw philosophers and artists of our time.
Ryan Holiday, author of The Daily Stoic
A Renaissance man on the big screen, McConaughey shows he is the same on the page. Mystical and spiritual but mostly just wonderful,
Greenlights
is an inspired memoir that celebrates the idea that it's the journey rather than the destination that will fulfill us.
Michael Connelly, author of Fair Warning
Written with great intensity and rare candor,
Greenlights
is a whirlwind of wisdom that's as singular and fervent as its author. Read the book, experience the behind-the-scenes adventures, then pursue your own greenlights full throttle.
Shaka Smart, head coach, mens basketball, The University of Texas at Austin
Greenlights
is many different books at once: an entertaining autobiography, a delightful adventure story, a very funny comedy, a wise self-help guide, an inspiring argument for love and family, and a candid tale of spiritual and personal discovery. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, co-author of Conscious Leadership
A
brilliant
memoir that lays bare everything
The Times
Published On: 2020-10-17A rollicking, contemplative trip
Financial Times
Published On: 2020-10-24
Greenlights
is not a memoir, though it tells true stories from his life in chronological order. Nor is it 'an advice book'. It is 'an approach book', bringing together McConaughey's insights from 35 years of writing journals, and more of collecting bumper stickers.
Guardian
Published On: 2020-10-26Mixing
philosophy
, 'teachable moments', self-help and
Kerouac-inspired memoir,
[Greenlights] takes in his remarkable career, finding love and stardom.
Sunday Independent
Published On: 2020-11-01The Hollywood Star interprets himself. There is derring-do, dope, mayhem and mishaps.
The Times - The Perfect Audiobooks for Lockdown
Published On: 2020-11-06Enjoyably quirky
Hello!
Published On: 2020-11-13Gloriously bonkers
Guardian - Best Autobiographies and Memoirs of 2020
Published On: 2020-11-23a wild ride through his memories
Evening Standard
Published On: 2020-12-17His not-quite-memoir offers a smörgåsbord of life lessons, anecdotes . . . It would be hard to finish the book and not warm to its author.
The Observer
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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. 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.
O autorze
Academy Award-winning actor
Matthew McConaughey
is a married man, a father of three children, and a loyal son and brother. He considers himself a storyteller by occupation, believes it's okay to have a beer on the way to the temple, feels better with a day's sweat on him, and is an aspiring orchestral conductor. In 2009, Matthew and his wife, Camila, founded the just keep livin Foundation, which helps at-risk high school students make healthier mind, body, and spirit choices. In 2019, McConaughey became a professor of practice at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as Minister of Culture/M.O.C. for the University of Texas and the City of Austin. McConaughey is also brand ambassador for Lincoln Motor Company, an owner of the Major League Soccer club Austin FC, and co-creator of his favorite bourbon on the planet, Wild Turkey Longbranch.
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