Greenlights - Matthew Mcconaughey [exclusive]

McConaughey’s father, "Big Jim," died of a heart attack while making love to Matthew’s mother. Matthew writes about this with astonishing tenderness and humor. He realized his father died happy, active, and in the arms of the woman he loved. Instead of a tragedy, Matthew reframed it as a "greenlight"—a death without regret.

He writes: “The difference between a ‘red light’ and a ‘greenlight’ can simply be how we see it. A red light can be a gift. It gives you time to look around, change your tires, take a nap, or change your destination entirely.” Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey

The central theme of the book is that we can engineer our own success and happiness. McConaughey’s father, "Big Jim," died of a heart

: Finding your true frequency by first identifying who you are not and removing habits or people that don't feed your soul. Instead of a tragedy, Matthew reframed it as

“Be brave enough to be bad at something new.”

But the magic of the book lies in his assertion that red lights can be flipped. "The trick," he writes, "is to recognize that a red light is just a greenlight waiting to happen."