Book Summary | Greenlights (2020)

​What is it about?
Greenlights (2020) is an autograph book by Matthew McConaughey. McConaughey describes his first 50 years of life experience and explains his green light philosophy.

Why bother?
The book brings unique perspectives from Matthew McConaughey.that is inspiring and interesting to read. The recommendation to read the book post this summary is 4.5. 

Key Ideas
McConaughey believes life is filled with green, red, and yellow lights. Green lights are affirmation signals that tell us to continue what we do or chase our dreams. We feel successful, privileged, contented, and encouraged during the green-light moments. On the contrary, during the red-light moments, we feel defeated, going through a tough time, or getting a big punch in the face telling us that we were wrong and needed to stop and rethink what to do next. Red lights can plan the seed for green lights or turn into green lights and vice versa. 

Over time, we build our core values to get more green lights and reduce red lights in our life. These core values are being our true selves, having the courage to take risks, working hard, planning well, being patient, and persistent. McConaughey believes that these are key to our life success.

Favorite Quotes

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Don’t walk into a place like you wanna buy it, walk in like you own it.” ― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights