WHEN LIFE MAKES US FEEL LOST | Matthew McConaughey's Crucial Lesson

WHEN LIFE MAKES US FEEL LOST | A Crucial Lesson by Matthew McConaughey

The acting superstar Matthew McConaughey takes us deep into his mind and explains the way of thinking and functioning that has brought him his tremendous success.

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Transcript:
Well, what better subject to study than ourselves?
What better subject to interrogate and investigate daily?
What's the one character that we are never going to get,
that we should never get bored with chasing to figure out?
But also, it's also the one that we can't get away from ourselves,
it’s the one person that we can't get rid of.

First four times I got in trouble,
and in my family growing up as a kid
our version to get in trouble is getting a whoopin,x
was for not answering to my name,
for saying, “I can't”,
and for saying, “I hate you”, to my brother and for lying.
There were values instilled in those four things.
Those words that hurt,
not the whoopin I got,
but if I had gone through life
answer no to whatever name,
lying, thinking I can't do stuff instead of feeling like I was having trouble and hating,
that would hurt me, that would have hurt me and my future life,
I would not be who I am,
that would be a hurtful way for me to go on living life, to grow into a human,
and I think that can apply for everybody,
something we try to instill in our children.
I remember this great story, my dad,
after I'd already learned the lesson of don't say, “can't”,
but forgot the lesson, I was going to do my chores one Saturday morning,
mow the yard, cranked the lawn mower 3 times, 4 times, 5 times
and put it on choke, damn it will start,
I go inside and go, ”dad, I can’t start the lawn mower”,
and he goes,”hmmm”, I saw his molars there,
and I knew right when I said, “oh I said that bad word, can't”,
he didn't say a word, he got up slowly, walked out of the bedroom,
through the kitchen, out of the garage, around to the back shed
where the lawn mower was,
pulled it a few times and didn't start,
head down and got that screwdriver to top it off,
fixed the gas leak where he got the tube back up so it was getting gas,
after that he cranks it and it starts running.
And he walked over to me, looked at me,
kind of leaned down on hands on his knees, looked me in the eye, and he goes,
“you see, son,you were just having trouble”.
Beautiful, he was right,
sometimes, you know, we can't do it ourselves,
we have trouble, we can seek help,
someone else can help us do that.
So we too, we try to instill in our children that same thing,
“no, no, no, don't say can't”,
they're not a hundred percent perfect at it,
but we're trying to help them understand
why, “can't”, and, “hate”, are actually,
badder words than, “shit, f**k, damn”, you know what I mean,
they're not good for you, they're not good for your future,
if you live hating and feel like you can't do stuff,
or lying, you're not going to create
green lights in your future for yourself.
Well, what better subject to study than ourselves?
What better subject to interrogate and investigate daily?
What's the one character that we are never going to get,
that we should never get bored with chasing to figure out,
but it's also the one character that we can't get away from ourselves,
it’s the one person that we can't get rid of,
so I have enjoyed and not enjoyed
investigating myself through my life.
I write about this in the book,
to form a personal style or to know who we are or what we want,
that's hard to do.
So I have learned to, by process of elimination
get rid of the things that you can go,
“oh, that is not me”, or , “that is just a fad,
that's not going to ever be classic, that does not feed me”.
That may be for instance, there are certain pursuits, we go,
“yeah, that may be an immediate green light that's just plugged into a battery”,
but that light's going to go out because that battery is going to die,
that's not truly solar powered green light,
so style is finding those things where we go,
“oh, that's a solar powered green light, that's who I am and who I am not”.
So by figuring out who we are not first,
I found that I was able to figure out who I was
by process of elimination.
You know, once you do find your frequency on something
and go forward if you're a non tyrant and don't ask permission,
and that's the, “not giving a damn”, part.
I found that the world will actually act and go,
“yeah, I'll give you a green light on that”,
if you actually go forward and mean it
like you're going to do it by hook or by crook and not ask permission.

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Title: WHEN LIFE MAKES US FEEL LOST | Matthew McConaughey's Crucial Lesson
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