Matthew McConaughey on Embracing Resistance & Catching Greenlights

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🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

You likely know my guest today from his roles in films such as Dazed and Confused, Dallas Buyer's Club, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Lincoln Lawyer, and so many great films. What you might not know about Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey over the last 35 years, he's been journaling his life experience, the wild stories and situations he found himself in.

Recently he worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries and what he found was a tome of life lessons on successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that make us marvel or laugh out loud. The things that make us stress less, how to hurt less, how to find meaning in life, and how to be more ourselves.

In our conversation, we of course talk about his new best-selling book Greenlights, we get into:

Growing intuition into craft
Finding a space to discover yourself and sort through what really matters in life
The 'just keep living' philosophy of making life-affirming choices and being a little bit better every day
Plus many fun stories about working on sets, preparing for roles, and working with Jared Leto

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	All right, all right, all right.
0:05.0	And yes, indeed, that is a hint who our guest today is.
0:10.0	Before I get to the guest, I want to welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis live show here on Crave Live.
0:15.0	You know the show and you know me.
0:17.0	I like to sit down here with amazing humans and do everything I can't unpack their brain and help you be your most awesome badass.
0:23.4	Today is going to deliver big time on that because my guest, it's Academy Award winning actor Matthew McConaughey.
0:29.5	That's right.
0:30.4	Matthew McConaughey is in the house.
0:32.7	You probably know him from the screen, of course, but I want you know he is a married man.
0:36.0	He's a father of three,
0:43.6	a loyal son and brother. Of course, you've seen him accepting that Academy Award, probably for Dallas Buyers Club, but he's also in so many great films, interstellar, dazed and confused,
0:48.8	contact, the Wolf of All Street, true detective, and many, many more. He is a storyteller by occupation. That's his own
0:56.2	words. I like to think of him as a bit of a rebel. He is a rebel with just a gentleman's side
1:01.6	in his own words. He also believes it's okay to have a beer on the way to the temple, which I could
1:06.8	not agree more to. In 2009, Matthew and his wife, Camilla, they found it a cool foundation
1:12.2	called the Just Keep Living Foundation. That was in the wake of Matthew's father passing and
1:17.5	Matthew's realization that that's really what life is about, is just continuing to live. I like to think
1:24.1	that we have come to have a good relationship, you and me here with this podcast.
1:28.0	And of all of the guests that we've had in the show, there's a constant theme which I watch
1:33.3	people struggle to sort of dance with. And that is the relationship between getting good at your
1:39.7	craft and knowing who you are and then your ability to trust your intuition.
1:46.0	When is your intuition right?
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