Greenlights
Crown · October 20, 2020 · audiobook read by the author
Part memoir, part approach to life, drawn from thirty-five years of journals. The organizing idea is the green light: the yes, the go, the stretch of road where things click. Red and yellow lights are the obstacles, and McConaughey's claim is that with time and the right response — persist, pivot, or concede — they tend to turn green. The themes run through the book: finding the lesson in hardship, gratitude, honesty, and authoring your own life rather than copying someone else's road.
It was a genuine phenomenon, a number-one New York Times bestseller and one of the best-selling books of its year. The audiobook, read by McConaughey in his own drawl, became a favorite in its own right. If one book is the doorway to the rest of him, this is it.
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