McConaughey explains his meaning of the autobiography title by using a stoplight analogy. The title of the book “Greenlights” is the main premise surrounding the autobiography. He tells his stories of wild success while keeping a tone of humility. McConaughey gives full transparency when discussing how he broke out of his “shirtless guy on the beach” role that was the only style of acting Hollywood wanted to pay him for. “We have to be thrown off balance to find our footing. ![]() “We cannot fully appreciate the light without the shadows,” McConaughey writes about the risky moves he made in his life. Doing peyote in a cage with a mountain lion, floating naked down the amazon river because of a dream he had, and the aforementioned sports car story are just a few of the wild tales McConaughey tells. He gives the readers behind the scenes looks at some of his celebrated film roles such as “Dallas Buyers Club” and “Dazed and Confused.” He shares stories beyond my wildest imagination. He toes the line between entertainment and inspiration at a masterful level. McConaughey is raw and honest with his audience for 304 carefully curated pages that take the reader through every chapter of his life. I took a lot of different things away from “Greenlights” and after hearing Rauch’s explanation, I realized just how influential the autobiography could be. The old-fashioned hustle that McConaughey talked about inspired me to want to go out and make more meaningful connections in the real world rather than portraying myself in a certain way in a digital world.” “It doesn’t have a direct connection but it made me think about how in our generation and society we have preconceived notions on so many people before we ever actually utter any words to them,” Rauch said.Ĭontinuing to elaborate, Rauch went on to say, “If I match with a girl on tinder and then see her in one of my classes or in a social setting, she already has some preconceived notion of me before I have even really met her. “I loved that part of the book, but still do not understand what that has to do with Tinder,” I said. This story, somehow, was the focus of Rauch’s sudden shift in attitude about dating. After coming to this realization, he went and traded the sports car back in for his truck and went back to his original hustling ways. McConaughey realized that when he got the sports car he thought it would do the work for him and he stopped putting in the effort. To his surprise, he started to notice that the attention he had experienced before was nonexistent. ![]() McConaughey then said he traded in his truck for a cherry red sports car that he expected to only increase his popularity. There was a part in the book where McConaughey talks about how he would get all of the girls’ attention in high school by standing in the bed of his beat-up truck and calling them over with a megaphone. “What in the hell does Matthew McConaughey’s book have to do with deleting tinder?!” another friend of mine exclaimed. One that we were not just going to let slide by with no explanation. I had also just read McConaughey’s autobiography, “Greenlights,” and did not immediately make the connection, the others in the conversation thought it was a preposterous proclamation. “I read Matthew McConaughey’s new book and it made me decide to delete tinder,” Rauch said. “You’re single, why would you delete Tinder?” I replied. “I deleted Tinder,” 21 year old, Michigan State University student, Matthew Rauch, exclaimed in the midst of a discussion about the dating app. Photo of a McConaughey from the author's Instagram.
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