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Matthew McConaughey On His Greenlights Philosophy, His Roadtrip Course And Feeling Gratitude For Life

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Importance of Accepting Your Toy

I remember I was playing with my youngest once and he was like, he wanted to do a puzzle. So we got a puzzle down and then he did that for two minutes. And then he's like, now I want to go play with this ball. He is making you do stuff. It has nothing to do with whether it's dinosaurs or going in the pool or doing the stuff. You are the toy. Now that I can accept that, it actually makes it so much easier to just sort of be bossed around and to let it happen.

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