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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In life, what is it that pushes us to discover our true self-identities? Who are we truly and how can we begin to know ourselves on the deepest level possible so that we can push through life’s greatest failures and relish in life’s greatest successes? By chasing fear, taking on challenges, and learning to live in discomfort, we can uncover who it is we truly are. On this episode of Impact Theory, Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey joins Tom Bilyeu to discuss such matters and more as they explore the stories and lessons Matthew has accumulated throughout his life that defines his drive, purpose, and his true self-identity. They discuss the lessons in Matthew’s new book ‘Greenlights,’ why you need to discover your true self, how needing puts you in a position to not be yourself, how to truly develop confidence, why resistance in life reveals who we truly are, why reinventing yourself through life is key to growth, how chasing fear keeps your drive alive, and what values are important to leading a life of freedom. Order Matthew’s new book, ‘Greenlights’: greenlights.com Check out our amazing sponsors! Panasonic HomeCHEF 4-in-1 Multi-Oven: To receive special offers, go to PanasonicKitchen.com and become a Panasonic Kitchen Insider. NETGEAR: Learn more at netgear.com/wifi Blinkist: Go to https://blinkist.com/impact Try it FREE for 7 days and save 25% off your new subscription. NetSuite: Schedule your FREE Product Tour at NetSuite.com/THEORY SHOW NOTES: Intro | Tom introduces and welcomes Matthew McConaughey to today’s show. [0:03] Origin | Matthew discusses the origin behind writing his new book, 'Greenlights.’ [1:02] Knowing Yourself | Matthew shares the importance of knowing yourself on a deep level. [3:10 ] Stop Needing | Matthew shares how desperation removes us from being truly ourselves. [7:07] Confidence | Matthew reveals the power of truly not giving a damn. [10:10] Resistance | Matthew shares an incredible story of truly discovering himself in Australia. [13:42] Alone | Matthew discusses the power of sitting alone with yourself. [21:10] Journeys | Matthew shares how uncomfortable journeys always provide life lessons. [23:34 ] Identity | Matthew reveals what forms our identity as we walk through life. [27:46] Re-Invent Yourself | Matthew discusses how he didn’t let fame trap him from growing. [34:03] Chase Fear | Matthew shares why you should pursue things that scare you. [37:11] Challenge | Matthew shares a story of chasing a recurring dream of a journey in Africa. [40:12 ] Just Go | Matthew reveals the power of making a choice and committing to it. [54:01] Values | Matthew shares the values you should embrace for a life of freedom. [55:45] Lessons | Matthew shares the lessons he seeks to pass on to his children. [1:01:25] Closing | Tom shares the inspiration found in Matthew’s new book, ‘Greenlights.’ [1:04:02] QUOTES: “What better subject to study than ourselves? What better subject to interrogate and investigate daily? What’s the one character that we are never going to get, that we should never get bored with chasing to figure out? But also, what’s the one character that we can’t get away from? Ourselves. It’s the one person that we can’t get rid of.” [3:07] “…there’s a responsibility to freedom and that there is freedom in responsibility.” [55:41] “If you live hating and feeling like you can’t do stuff or lying, you’re not going to create green lights in your future for yourself.” [1:03:43] FOLLOW MATTHEW: Website: greenlights.comTwitter: twitter.com/McConaughey Facebook: facebook.com/MatthewMcConaughey Instagram: instagram.com/officiallymcconaughey

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Impact Theory. I am here with a face that
0:08.4	I think everybody is going to recognize Mr. Matthew McConaughey. Thank you for joining me, man.
0:13.3	All right, good to be here Tom. Thanks for having me. Absolutely, dude. I am super excited. Your book
0:17.7	was so much fun and I listened to the audio book, so I got to hear you performing it and
0:23.6	doing impressions and voices. I was really into it. I actually had sat down at one point. I was
0:29.8	just going to do like a quick 15 minutes and then I had other things that I had planned to do,
0:34.1	sort of in a different sequence. And the book sucked me in and I ended up reading it listening to
0:38.8	it in almost one shot. It was really fantastic. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Absolutely, man. I
0:45.7	love that you've gotten into what I would refer to as the mindset space just, you know,
0:50.4	walking people through what you've learned over a pretty extraordinary life and career.
0:55.4	What was the origin behind wanting to write the book?
1:00.8	I've been threatening to go away and see if those 36 years of diaries were worthy of putting
1:07.1	into book form. I've been threatening myself for 15 years. I've never had the courage to do it,
1:12.3	figured, oh, you know what? In martyrdom, my wife or a good friend will look at those diaries
1:17.6	and journals and if anything's worth sharing, they'll share it. And that was sort of a,
1:21.6	gee, I was sort of chickening out with that idea. So maybe it was coming on 50, although I'm not a
1:27.9	sort of a numerologist where I think like, oh, I've got to do things by a certain time, but maybe
1:31.7	that I had something to do with it. I hired a ghostwriter first to help me. We had one meeting and
1:38.5	then he got pulled from the job by his boss and that was the best gift I could have been given.
1:42.0	That was when I said, oh, okay, you need to go away. And my wife backed me up and said, yes,
1:46.0	get out of here. Take that treasure chest full of journals and go see what you got. I feel like I
1:50.4	had enough. I didn't know what it was. What it was going to be. I actually thought it was going to
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