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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.

Welcome back to our re-opening series.

We're in the home stretch on the fifth of six big questions about what we want from work.

This week we ask you to start dreaming big again.

Because look, for a year and a half we've been planning in one week increments,

sometimes one hour increments.

And that served us well as we navigated the worst of the pandemic.

But now?

Well now we can plan and dream and scheme again.

We can make a legit, optimistic, five-year plan.

So today is about remembering how to do that.

It's going to be fun, expansive, and dare I say, entertaining.

Today's guest is an actor and a writer with a bright view of the future, Matthew McConaughey.

I specifically wanted to talk to Matthew about dreaming and scheming for two reasons.

One, taking the long view demands self-reflection.

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