014: How To Find Your Identity - Matthew McConaughey from Becoming Antifragile

014: How To Find Your Identity - Matthew McConaughey

1 hour 1 minutes Posted Feb 4, 2024 at 11:24 am.

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What is Greenlights about?

Who is Matthew McConaughey

Defeating and defending dad, a rite of passage

Don’t ignore effort

Using the process of elimination to find yourself

Don’t half-ass & Kahlil Gibran’s poem

Death & becoming a man

What do you want in life?

The monastery, Peru and fighting demons

Difference between knowing and understanding

Craftsman mentality

Hedonism vs. discipline

Fatherhood & holding to your conviction

Define what success means to you

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Lessons from Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. McConaughey (born Nov. 4, 1969) is an Academy Award Winner, husband and father. His movies include A Time to Kill, The Lincoln Lawyer, Mud, Interstellar and more.

Greenlights is a memoir and an approach book on how to live life on your terms.

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IJ Makan is a philosopher, designer, and martial artist.

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