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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to work or to get the kids to school.

We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals, and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. My guest today is the one and only Matthew McConaughey author of the new book Green Lights. Here's my blurb of it.

It shouldn't surprise you that this book is good, but it will surprise you just how good it is. Why is it entertaining? This is an inspiring memoir and how to from one of the great outlaw philosophers and artists of our time.

It's a huge fan of Matthew's work for a very long time, just like most people on the planet. We happen to be fellow residents, citizens of Austin, Texas.

I love obviously the first season of True Detective. It is incredible. Dallas Byers Club, Wolf of Wall Street, Dazed and Confused, and a million other movies.

But more than an actor, a thinker and entrepreneur, he's the minister of culture at the University of Texas. I went to the opening home game last year, not this year, but when they could have fans.

And it was pretty incredible to see a single human being lead 110,000 people in a cheer.

So Matthew's work has impact in sports and art, culture, business, all different domains. And as it happens, he's a fan of the Stokes. We got introduced in the middle of the pandemic by a mutual friend, Michael Rapinel, the CEO of Live Nation.

Michael, who I've known for a while, sent me an email. He said, hey, my friends working on a book, he'd love to connect you with them. I thought, sure, whatever, who could this possibly be?

Sometimes it's a friend of a friend of a friend who self-published a book. And it was his friend, M.M. as he called him. And it turned out to be Matthew McConaughey. Matthew had read some of my books so we connected right away and have sort of stayed in touch through the last couple months of quarantine.

Have not got to meet in person. Didn't get to do this in person, but it's been awesome to see his book blow up. It really is a great book. And so you can listen to the two of us talk philosophy, autonomy in one's career, talk a little politics.

So, you know, I'm sure that my trigger a couple of you. We talk about how you find the projects you're interested in. And I think his concept of a green light, taking the green lights that life gives you is a really important stoic concept.

Remember, Epic Tita says, don't look for life to be a certain way. Look for life to be as it is. And then you will be happy. And that's really to me what the concept of a green light is. It's about taking the S for an answer.

So there's a great book, a great interview. I was honored to do this. Matthew's been on a ton of other huge shows. So if you've listened to those, this will be very different because we're talking ancient philosophy and a bunch of other stuff. And it's great. Looking forward to having you listen. And we'll talk soon.

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