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Every book Matthew McConaughey recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Matthew McConaughey appears on, in one place — not just one.
Matthew McConaughey is an American actor. He achieved his breakthrough with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993). After a number of supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996). His career progressed with lead roles in the science fiction film Contact (1997), the historical drama Amistad (1997), the war film U-571 (2000), and the epic science fiction film Interstellar (2014). On podcasts, McConaughey has discussed several books. He referenced a passage from his own book, Poems and Prayers, concerning risk-taking and whether God is happier when individuals take major risks. While appearing on podcasts, he also discussed finding Og Mandino's book The Greatest Salesman in the World in college and explained how it influenced his decision to change his major from law to film school. Additionally, he brought up Jordan Peterson's book Beyond Order to ask the author about his writing process and how he crafts his messages.
Books recommended by Matthew McConaughey
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The Greatest Salesman in the World
The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino is a classic motivational book structured as a series of ancient parables that teach timeless principles of perseverance, personal discipline, and salesmanship.
Discussed“And this is what's facing me in this. It was in the middle of the stack of the magazines. And I look at I go, "The greatest salesman in the world." And I said loud. I go, "Who's that?" I pick it up.”
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Beyond Order
Beyond Order by Jordan B.
Discussed“when you're working on say beyond order this new book how do you think of composing your stories or your messages so that they are not lost”
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Poems and Prayers
Poems and Prayers by Matthew McConaughey is a collection of reflections, poetry, and prayers drawn from decades of the author's life, starting from his teenage years.
Discussed“You know, I have that passage in poems and prayers and I'm curious, you know, if if if is God happier if we take eight major risk in life and pull off seven of them...”
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Other mentions (27: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Even in writing green lights, part of that was going back and looking at 35 years of my journey.”
“There's things I look back at that that I that I did when I was younger that makes me happy to be here and alive. Um so, but um there's been some great stories which I cataloged along the way and mostly in green lights and somewhat in poems and prayers.”
“And then lays into that, I wrote it in green lights, but I do have a hunch that the world's conspiring to make me happy.”
“There's been some great stories which I cataloged along the way and mostly in Greenlights and somewhat in Poems and Prayers.”
“There's been some great stories which I cataloged along the way and mostly in Greenlights and somewhat in Poems and Prayers.”
“You know, I have that passage in Poems and Prayers, I'm curious, you know, if if if if if is God happier if we take eight major risk in life and pull off seven of them...”
“I mean, look, I I I've wrote about this in Greenlights since a little bit in poems and prayers. These man, these roofs, these limitations we put on oursel, we make those up.”
“I mean, look, I I I've wrote about this in Greenlights since a little bit in poems and prayers. These man, these roofs, these limitations we put on oursel, we make those up.”
“Even in writing green lights. Part of that was going back and looking 35 years of my journal”
“there's been some great stories which I cataloged along the way and mostly in green lights and somewhat in poems and prayers.”
“mostly in green lights and somewhat in poems and prayers. Um I think there's been some pretty good good stories along the way.”
“I got a great story in green lights of them fighting and my mom bashing and breaking my dad's nose with the phone”
“and I talk about this in the book he wasn't only giving me permission he was giving me a responsibility”
“and in writing greenlet when I went back that's a lot of the consistencies that I found that I wrote when things were going well”
“I wrote about in green lights about how you know we always say well who are you”
“I got her story in the book of green lights where she told me to say to sign my name under this Anne Ashford poem”
“it's part of the reason I think I wrote the book green light I started to get the courage enough to project to my deathbed to my eulogy”
“I started doing that about six years ago, it's part of the reason I think I wrote the book Greenlights, I started to get the courage enough to project to my deathbed, to my eulogy and go, what's it gonna be, man, yeah, where's your head in heart and spirit going to be, what's your legacy going to be, how”
“I just want to talk about in the book back, once you know it's inevitable, how do we get relative?”
“Yes, Mom, go, talk about greenlight. Go!”
“I think the metaphor of red, yellow, green lights is just so simple and so powerful.”
“Well, I'll say this like when I went to write about "Greenlights," which is basically the last 40 years of my life, I thought that 85, 90% of my successes were going to be obviously engineered. Or I could see the science, saw the habits, here's what I did.”
“and that's where green lights came from i found that i had engineered green lights in my life through responsibilities taken yesterday which bore me freedom”
“entrance level understanding to master class psychology delivered in a folk song i mean the guy's got the gift of gab man what can i say jordan peterson”
“got a book out got green lights trying to catch him trying to create him what makes a guy who is successful as you as an actor”
“i write in my book you know and i get asked a lot do you believe in fear”
“i've been keeping a lot of short stories in my diaries and a lot of them which are in this in this book green lights”