455: Matthew McConaughey | Following Life's Greenlights to Success
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) is an Academy Award-winning actor, producer, and author of #1 New York Times Bestseller Greenlights.
What We Discuss with Matthew McConaughey:- What the sobriety of grief did for Matthew's attitude about risk when he was dealing with the loss of his father.
- How Matthew tries to instill the values of self-reliance in his kids.
- How Matthew learned to cope with imposter syndrome and get his head on straight when he became a household name seemingly overnight.
- The philanthropic approach to selecting roles that has guided Matthew through his career in film.
- How Matthew keeps criticism from affecting how he perceives himself.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, McConaughey here and you are listening to the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:04.8 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:07.3 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:09.8 | You know, there's that awkward bridge when we left to learn something we have the instincts for. |
| 0:14.4 | I was becoming conscious of what I had instincts to do. |
| 0:17.5 | To learn a new craft, you've got to just go through that awkward period and power through it |
| 0:21.1 | because all of a sudden it starts to slip from your head to your body to your gut, your heart, |
| 0:25.5 | your low and your feet and all of a sudden it does become instinctual |
| 0:28.5 | with working on something with repetition and working on over and trying to understand it. |
| 0:36.4 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:38.5 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most |
| 0:42.4 | fascinating people. We have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game. |
| 0:46.8 | Astronauts and entrepreneurs, spies and psychologists. Even the occasional award-winning actor, |
| 0:52.0 | Russian chess, grandmaster, national security advisor, legendary Hollywood director, |
| 0:56.4 | each episode turns our guests to wisdom into practical advice that you can use to build a deeper |
| 1:01.3 | understanding of how the world works and become a better critical thinker. |
| 1:05.0 | If you're new to the show or you're looking for a handy way to tell your friends about it, |
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| 1:12.9 | by popular topics to help new listeners get a taste of everything we do here on the show. |
| 1:18.4 | Just visit JordanHarbinger.com slash start to get started or hopefully to help someone else |
| 1:23.8 | get started with us as well. I always appreciate that. Today, Matthew McConaughey, |
| 1:28.0 | I'm not sure how much of an intro this guy needs. 40 plus feature films, multiple awards. |
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