Matthew McConaughey On: His Morning Routine; When To Take Risks; How To Bounce Back From Fuckups; And the Dangers of Cynicism
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
A guide to navigating "the rodeo of life".
Academy Award–winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Matthew McConaughey is a husband and a father, an eternal optimist, a hopeful skeptic, and a man of faith who believes that we should all start sellin' Sunday morning like a Saturday night. His latest book is Poems and Prayers.
In this episode we talk about:
- What Matthew's prayer practice looks like
- How to figure out what your beliefs are
- His relationship with doubt and humility
- How to reframe your relationship with failure, risk, and embarrassment
- Morning rituals and how to prepare for the day
- Sins, cynicism, and what to do when things get hard
- Matthew's take on the world
- Misconceptions of 'good' and 'evil'
- The difference between 'hope' and 'belief'
- Why "belief is punk rock"
- And more
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