Greenlights

De: Matthew McConaughey

Narrado por: Matthew McConaughey

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Now with exclusive new content from the paperback edition, the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

“The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years.”—USA Today

“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.

good bumper stickers

I just wish I could get one book from Hollywood that didn't cram politics down my throat right at the end. I got a few things out of this book that I will keep. And that's all I got to say because well Matthews head is big enough.

Well Done, Mr. McConaughey!!!!

I was very impressed by his knowledge and insight from the first sentence. Before this insightful listen of a great man reading, I was not into Matthew because I thought he started to be arrogant. I am speechless after this amazing story. I understand now who, what, why and how he has become such a great man. I laughed and cried through this book. I listened to a Howard Stern interview with Matthew, Howard was so wrong about his opinion about Matthew childhood. I get it. Mr. McConaughey, you are the MAN!!!!

First audio book, really enjoyed it !

Book was very interesting. I would definitely recommend. Matthew narrating, makes it very easy listening.

Absolutely the best audible book out there!

I’m so sad that’s I just finished listening to your book! I absolutely LOVED it! I’ve always admired you. Thank you for writing this book and for letting us get to know YOU. I throughly enjoyed. every. minute. of it and love that you chose to be the voice for the audible book! Not every author does. It was so satisfying listening to you say “greenlight” as I’d approach one while driving! Thank you. “Keep Livin” and seeking God. -Rachel Peach

Full of tidbits of wisdom and hilarious escapades!

I write this to Mr McConaughey.
Thank you for your egotistical rendition of life and how to approach the good and the bad. The book was entertaining and endearing. I come away with three quips that touched my life...
“Me too” , “Turn the page”, and of course “ green light”.
Your optimism is inspiring.
Readers should listen to this book too because Mr. McConaughey does an excellent job!