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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE • Now in paperback with exclusive new content!
The life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.
“The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years.”—USA Today
“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 greenlights.”
 
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 greenlights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
 
Good luck.

From the Publisher

The bestselling memoir that has inspired millions Now in paperback

Both calming and laugh, laugh, laugh-out-loud funny writes The Washington PostBoth calming and laugh, laugh, laugh-out-loud funny writes The Washington Post

… celebrates the idea that it’s the journey rather than the destination ... says Michael Connelly … celebrates the idea that it’s the journey rather than the destination ... says Michael Connelly

Wise and entertaining says Ryan HolidayWise and entertaining says Ryan Holiday

Unflinchingly honest and remarkably candid says Mark MansonUnflinchingly honest and remarkably candid says Mark Manson

McConaughey’s own story is arguably more interesting … writes  USA TodayMcConaughey’s own story is arguably more interesting … writes  USA Today

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crown
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 12, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593139151
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593139158
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.83 x 8.44 inches

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Customers find this book refreshing and entertaining, praising its down-to-earth writing style and the author’s talent as an intelligent actor. They appreciate the book’s honesty, with one customer describing it as a handbook for living with authenticity, and its humor, noting how the laughs come out of left field. Customers value the insights into the author’s life, with one review highlighting the candid stories about growing up, while the stunning cover and texture receive positive feedback.

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