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

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

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