Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey Audiobook Excerpt
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- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Narrated by Matthew McConaughey
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Book Description:
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
“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 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
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 realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
Good luck.
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"I believe the truth is only offensive when you're lying". I love that
Seriously!
I dont get it lol
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It sounds good but nothing outstanding
I love nothing more then be husband letter
I am a tuck driver , and I am always listening to this audio book over and over again and I love it very much and it has taught me many different things, you are very motivational and have way with your words
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You cannot love a book 😂
Thanks!
There’s something so calming and reassuring by the sound of his voice and the way he speaks. If the end of the world was coming, or instance ww3 maybe even an alien invasion or they do exist I’d want the information broadcast by him 💯 😂
Great for motivation and yet to read his book the other half has wrapped it up for Christmas before I could get my hands on it!
what I like about Matthew McConaughey, he's so laid back, he reminds me of my uncle, if there's a problem, what are my options, deal with the cards we're dealt, he seams to be a person that loves life!
"I do believe the world is conspiring to make me happy"!
I could listen to this man all day
innit
I heard 'Greenlights' on Audible during our 6 month's travels across the US from Dec 2020 through June 2021. What a great book..! Made the hours driving super entertaining, laughed out loud several times, thank you Matthew for sharing your stories and providing great perspectives in life, from family relationships, to marriage, to fatherhood and dozen other imp. outlooks in life.
The tonal clash between getting molested and raving about bumper sticker ideas is... Sublime.
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He is so talent with great voice and emotion 🔥
I love his voice.
I’m going to love driving down the highway listening to this.
Have fun and a good drive. Drive safely. :))
What an amazing BOOK... so love how this has changed my life is so many ways.
I thought this book was a compilation of all the Lincoln commercial soliloquies.
Bumper stickers. It was over 20 years ago. It was a huge, gnarly logging truck carrying trees stumps 6-feet in diameter. Not just that, it looked mean. Then I saw the blue-green friendlly-looking bumper sticker ... "Earth First! . . . and I confusingly sort-of felt better until I read...
Will Log Other Planets Later"
Hope it will be available with him reading the entire book.
It is indeed.
It is incredible
It's available on Audible
It’s phenomenal
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He really buried the lede about getting molested in a van
2:09 Foreshadowing.
Yeah he doesn't revisit it at all. I suppose it's not that kind of book. He doesn't talk much about his movies, his girlfriends, friends, or his friend Woody or bad things that happened to him unless there was a lesson learned.
My life coach said she was reading this book came here to check it out.... Love that line. "Getting wet trying to dance between the raindrops"
He’s so talented
Cringe
no hes not
Read this book cover to cover in one sitting. One of my favorite human beings on earth.
Naked playing bongos by yourself. Sounds like a damn good time.
Look forward to hearing the whole story xxx
I feel like I need to gulp down a couple of Lone Stars with cigarettes as chasers to fully appreciate this.
Alright alright alright
Easy back care
I had 17 bucks left for the week till my paycheck this Friday I read the first few pages and had to have it I got some ramen and bologna in the fridge I'll buy some bread lol you the man one day I'll get you to sighn it sir
Could listen to this guy read the phonebook and it'd be interesting, tremendous dude
You should every happy beautiful family ,and a lot of good dreams that came true.
He is soooo fine and such an Amazing Actor been a Fan since day one!🙌😍💜
And what date is day one?
@@KindlyHelpMeReach100Ksubcriber Day one for me personally since the 90's !
In love with this book
I always remember Buster Moon. Me and my son loved that animation so much. Part 1 and 2 are all great. 😊👍❤
"I have a lot of proof that the world is conspiring to make me happy"
Oh my he has excepted life and himself so beautiful it's to see in one person it a lifetime for some or none at all to come to terms with one's own whole being bless you for things to come n many more namaste🙏🦋🦋❤💚💚 jus keep on living
HE IS BRILLIANT!!! A hell of a poet too! I HAVE TO BUY THIS A.BOOK!!!
Liked when he went on a bike ride with some boys from Dazed And Confused.
8:18 just coming to breeze past that one
Buy this book!
legend by the way, The Gentlemen,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Gangster, love from liverpool England. xxx
Omg I love your knowledge on bumper stickers your a genius!!!!!!!!!!!🤯
You are driving your car you approach A intersection The light is red as you sit at the light you notice it is not changing and there’s no one else on the road how long do you wait?
Your programming is complete you may receive your shot.
Awsome book
*spits coffee out* “HE WAS WHAT IN HIS WHAT NOW?!”
Hell yeah, dude
Best book I ever read
I purchased the book love it
I listened to this in 3 parts 🔥
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Adam Huber recommended this! 😺🖤
Hollywood is waiting for your script
love this xxx
Thank you matt!!
Read the book and loved it. Just found out about the audiobook. Cool.
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This sounds like the transcript of an acid trip.
Thank you
"Does that mean Go-Ride?"
Is that you Rust?
8:18 hol up...
You bongoed naked unil the cops arrested you ! Funniest shit I ever read !
Self indulgent af
I think you missed the point bro, he literally explained what this is in the first 60 seconds.
Anyone can do this, it’s whether or not people give a shit enough to listen.
@@twriverm9576 then why is he going around doing press to promote and sell this garbage.
This is trash.
hahahahaha “memoir”.... what a narcissist.
This joke of a book is absolutely hilarious.
He is such a tryhard
You got me crying😎
@@genetenz "a spaceship to Mars without a driver's license" is one the the most try hard writings that I've ever heard.
Green lights? 5:5
He also drives a Lincoln. 😎
I help my mom's house in saved qauithe of the law
Bumperstickers!
“Im not here preach and tell you what to do”
Preaching is not telling you what to do 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
"Shit I'm tired."
7:30
Memoirs of a Gayfer
Who else is here because of Micah Hyde?
WTF is 8:18
That was my reaction when reading the book had to go back
I never realized how foul your language would be. Jesus said: what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart.
The Serpent Seed telling you about life.. what a joke!
He talks of God like he knows/looks up to/believes in "him" (not necessary in this book, I would not know, I stopped when he started cursing)....then on to curse and make movies that do not reflect this claim. I do pray that he does truly find Jesus, he could win a lot of souls.
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"my parents told me to appreciate what I had.
I got red cards playing sports.
I was knocked out and raped in the back of a van.
I've tried peyote."
He got molested?
He says a lot of words while saying nothing at all. Lol. Hes such a great speaker but it's really just a bunch of stories filled with meaningless platitudes or bumper stickers, as he calls them.
"Some times you gotta go backwards to go forward."
Lol ok, I cant use that advice in life, at least not without getting a ticket or tripping over something but damn, it sounds good.
I reccomend buying 12 Rules for Life or pre-ordering Beyond Order 12 More Rules for Life. Jordan Peterson's voice and cadence isnt quite as hypnotic but it's more practical advice.
You cant use that in life? You have to look deeper than surface level if your going to give an actual critic. Going back and looking over your past decisions mistakes and successes before moving forward on something its great advice.
@@davyroger3773 Hm let me give this platitude thing a shot.
(Matthew McConaughey voice)
"Never go backwards in life, in fact, remove your rearview mirror and put your foot on the gas. Dont worry about red lights and green lights and live life like your on the german Autobahn, full speed ahead!"
There ya go, free advice. Lmaooo
You might have missed the deeper meaning about this particular Life. An optimist by nature with humor and humility as teachers. And more importantly, great talent and resilience. Success. Don't you want to find his secrets, dig them up and maybe, potentially, apply them to your experience? Transformative theory is meant to be applied, not just digested and recognized. ''Contracts I have made with myself''[...]. ''Rights of passage'' [...].
It's a love letter to life. I'm cheap, and I'm fun.
Good luck to you and may the immediate experience of your surroundings appear more kindly to your inclinations.
@@PigsNLemons Deeper meaning?!? Lmao these are the shallow side of thoughts I was having in my teenage years. If you think this is deep you got a lot more coming in life, assuming you can swim well enough to get out of the shallow end. I have an IQ of 137 so these bumper sticker platitudes arent "deep", sorry.
@@TheLuckyShepherd Alright, I was trying to show you how to advance out of the cavern. It was all a covert-op, a coup, to make JLS see deeper into himself. Someone call Socrates, Diogenes, the top dogs! simpy to make JLS question himself again, like he used to. Have you ever tried to write a book?
EDIT: this seems agressive but it's meant to be taken in good fun
This is quite possibly the worst book ever written.
It's not a competition in literature. Just symbols of meaning talking to a void filled by organic points of view. If it were a race, we'd all be reading Krierkegaard, Holy Books or scientific essays, like peak-performance drugged-up track-horses. I liked McConaughey's words here. They met my criterias.
@@PigsNLemons Glad you enjoyed it, it’s still the worst literature printed.
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Who are you to judge? Who are any of us? We just live and listen, and read and experience. And learn through that.
@@viktorija.jankauskaite Who are you to question my opinion?
He always wore those knees outta dem jeans. Matthew gluk gluk 3000 McConaughey
the worst lecturer at community college
Who r u
@@DayaneraSapp this is your father, get back to your chores
great actor, horrible writer