398: Matthew McConaughey on Catching More Greenlights, the Impermanence of Life, & Writing Your Own Story
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: http://bit.ly/matthewmcconaughey398
Matthew McConaughey (IG: @officiallymcconaughey) is an Academy Award-winning actor, married man, a father of three children, and a loyal son and brother.
In October of last year he released Greenlights, an unconventional memoir that was born out of diaries he’s been keeping for the last 35 years. It’s a guide to catching more greenlights in life and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too. It's also a love letter to life.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The aftermath from the Texas winter storm crisis
- How COVID-19 gave us a new sense of purpose
- Go write your own story
- The restrictions of being a celebrity
- The day Matthew got famous
- Appreciating the moment
- Being the pilot of your choices
- Documenting the existential question of "why?" through journaling
- Write the headline first and living your story
- The art of living
- Fatigue is one of the greatest enemies
- The book that kept Matthew anchored
- How Matthew landed his role in Dazed and Confused
- Creating the character Wooderson
- Three affirmations… alright, alright, alright
- The death of Matthew’s dad taught him to just keep livin
- What’s your eulogy?
- The impermanence of life
- Chasing our better selves
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | I wrote down things. |
| 0:03.4 | I remember writing to myself, |
| 0:04.6 | dissect your success, man. |
| 0:06.9 | Dicec's when you're happy. |
| 0:08.4 | Dicec's when you're sleeping well. |
| 0:10.4 | Dicec's when your relationships are going well. |
| 0:12.3 | Dicec's when you're laying down at the end of the night |
| 0:14.4 | and you see the day clearly, |
| 0:16.9 | where you see that your relationships evolved |
| 0:19.2 | from yesterday, where you feel like you grew, |
| 0:21.6 | where you feel like you were honest, |
| 0:22.7 | where you sacrifice something and it paid off tomorrow. |
| 0:26.7 | So I started dissecting those things and, |
| 0:29.6 | shoot, I mean, a lot of that, |
| 0:30.8 | as I get to this point in this conversation, |
| 0:32.4 | a lot of that's kind of what the book is about. |
| 0:35.5 | Sacrifices, delay gratification, |
| 0:38.4 | mixed with a lot of immediate gratification. |
| 0:41.1 | I think the book's a lot about, |
| 0:42.6 | sometimes how we have to write the headline |
| 0:44.6 | for where we want to go in life. |
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