Matthew McConaughey

I think it keeps a lot of us up at night.

When you half-ass something that you just don't know, whether you failed or succeeded, got what you want or didn't get what you want, finding out and looking in the mirror and going, I didn't half-ass it.

I went all the way.

I found out, and that ain't for me.

Or I found out, and you're damn right that is for me.

That's a great place to get to.

I think part of the challenges in life is a lot of us are running around half-assing ourselves, half-fooling ourselves, not full of ourselves, not studying ourselves enough, not holding ourselves to task enough, not patting our own self on the back when we do get what we want enough, not cracking our own whip on our backside when we do get out of line even though we knew better.

I wish we were more full of ourselves that way.

Someone said this to me before.

Matthew, you're so full of yourself.

And without thinking, I was like, well, who else am I supposed to be full of?

And I stopped after.

I was like, that's exactly what I meant.

And I wrote that down.

I wish more people were more full of themselves.

I think we should take some time to be able to look in the mirror and own that thing that we pulled off and go, good job.

That's what you wanted.

That's what you got.

At the same time, be able to, as we do more often, look in the mirror when we fail and go, uh-uh, bogey, you did not pull that off.

Give others and yourself more credit.