EAN: 9781472280879

GREENLIGHTS - MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY KARTONIERT (TB)

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 satisfaction. 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. 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 get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state
of success I call 'catching greenlights.' 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. 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. It's a love letter. To life. It's also
a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn
green too. Good luck.

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