Becoming Antifragile 014: How To Find Your Identity - Matthew McConaughey
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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00:00 - Excerpt
02:55 - What is Greenlights about?
04:00 - Who is Matthew McConaughey
05:45 - Defeating and defending dad, a rite of passage
11:40 - Don’t ignore effort
13:12 - Using the process of elimination to find yourself
20:55 - Don’t half-ass & Kahlil Gibran’s poem
25:20 - Death & becoming a man
30:00 - What do you want in life?
34:30 - The monastery, Peru and fighting demons
38:44 - Difference between knowing and understanding
42:30 - Craftsman mentality
46:34 - Hedonism vs. discipline
53:00 - Fatherhood & holding to your conviction
58:55 - Define what success means to you
1:00:00 - Challenge
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