GREENLIGHTS

u003cbu003e#1 u003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e BESTSELLER * From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfactionu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbu003eu003cbru003e NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY u003ciu003eTHE GUARDIANu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003e"Unflinchingly honest and remarkably candid, Matthew McConaughey's book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did--and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand."--Mark Manson, author of u003ciu003eThe Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*cku003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges--how to u003ciu003eget relative with the inevitableu003c/iu003e--you can enjoy a state of success I call "catching greenlights."u003cbru003e u003cbru003e So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e It's a love letter. u003cbu003eTo life.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e It's also a guide to catching more greenlights--and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Good luck.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eThe short dust jacket included with this hardcover edition is an intentional design choice.u003c/bu003e