#863 - Matthew McConaughey - The Hidden Art Of Reinventing Yourself

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Matthew McConaughey is an Academy Award winning actor, a producer and an author. Expect to learn what “Don’t half-ass it” means, the story of how Matthew got his iconic starting role in Dazed & Confused, how to see the upside during any crisis, why having a sense of humour should be your default emotion, McConaughey’s own version of his Lonely Chapter, when you should listen to your gut versus your head, why McConaughey turned down $14.5M to pursue something great, Matthew's reflections on the 10 year anniversary of Interstellar, lesson on finding the perfect partner, and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get a 20% discount on your first order from Maui Nui Venison by going to https://mauinuivenison.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://shopify.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Get a 25% discount on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Shop SKIMS Mens at https://SKIMS.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What does don't half asset mean to you?
0:05.0	If you're going to do it, do it.
0:10.0	Say what you can do?
0:13.0	Do what you say.
0:14.0	If you can't do it, don't say you can do it.
0:16.0	Don't over leverage yourself.
0:17.0	Don't over leverage the decision and then jump in and kind of dip a toe i think i'll try
0:21.9	it out now think if you're going to try it out beforehand but when it's time to go dive finish it
0:26.5	find out come out the other side don't leave it and go oh if i just for it uh-uh that keeps me up at
0:34.7	night i think it keeps a lot of us up at night when you half-assedassed something and you just don't know, whether you failed or succeeded, got what you want or didn't
0:41.6	get what you want, finding out and looking in the mirror and going, I didn't have acid. I went all
0:47.7	the way. I found out. And that ain't for me. Or I found out, and you damn right that is for me, that's a great place to get to you. But the limbo of not knowing, if you half asked something,
0:57.9	the limbo of going, I hedged my bet.
1:01.3	What could have happened?
1:02.7	You don't know.
1:03.5	Were you surprised when your dad said that to you?
1:07.1	Yeah.
1:07.4	When you were gonna take a pivot in life trajectory?
1:16.4	I wouldn't have been in the top 100 things I thought he would have said. I was fully stabilizing in that moment. As I said, I called Tuesday night, 7 o'clock. He'll have had a beer. He's already
1:22.8	had dinner. Not Monday because that's the first day of the work week. He'll be a little more stressed.
1:32.6	Catch him at Tuesday. When I unload this that I don't want to go to law school I want to go to film school and I really thought he was going to go you want to do what again the family I grew up
1:39.8	in the idea of me thinking that the idea of going into film was like very saturday idea a hobby
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