Greenlights - Matthew Mcconaughey

Critics might call Greenlights arrogant. After all, it takes a certain level of swagger to write a memoir at 50. But McConaughey gets away with it because he includes the failures. He details the divorce from his father (his parents married and divorced each other three times). He details the panic attacks. He details the year he spent driving a truck across the desert just to "remember what the wind felt like."

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Sometimes you have to leave the "rom-com" phase of your life to find your "McConaissance." Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey

You can't truly be free or "in the zone" unless you’ve done the hard work beforehand. Critics might call Greenlights arrogant

He recounts the year he spent as an exchange student in Australia, where he was robbed, stranded, and discovered the virtue of "less." He writes about the brutal rejection of early Hollywood, where he was offered $8 million to star in a romantic comedy he hated. He turned it down. He was broke for two years. He calls that a "strategic red light." He details the divorce from his father (his