#2379 - Matthew McConaughey
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Cheers, cheers, sir. My man. You, uh, you're a man of many talents, my friend. Tell me about this book.
poems and prayers yeah um so I've been kind of writing try to keep this like these are a little bit direction how's that I've been kind of I've been writing points and prayers down for since I was like 18. um and then this last I don't know a couple years I started looking around at life and the facts and evidence and people and I was like not finding the amount of things or people to believe in that I was wanting to. And I was starting to have doubts in myself as well. And I started to see myself slip into a little bit of cynicism. Which I promised myself, no, that's a living man's disease. Don't go there. You go from innocence to naivete to skepticism, but let's stop there. It's skepticism.
Yeah.
And I kind of got... Scared and a little pissed off at myself. And I was like, well, wait a minute. I'm not ready to give up. I'm not ready to wave the white flag and let myself off for certain things I was starting to even want to let myself off on, you know, or other people. And I said, all right. Poems and prayers. Those are ideals. Those are pursuits. You know, that's going to the dream and saying, let's go to let's let's let's look at the dream and see if we can still believe in making that a reality. Aspirational. Instead of looking at reality and saying, how do you turn that into a dream? Which is what I usually do. I'm like, art emulates life, man, not the other way around. But I flipped the script a little bit here and said, no, no, let's dive into the dreams and belief.
Man, I think it's in short supply. It was giddy. My tank was getting low on belief.
What was bothering you so much, specifically?
Maybe it's... Turn 50, something like that. Maybe it's that where I start to project, you know, what am I? What's the next half?
Right.
I don't know. Maybe subconsciously it was. I think I look around and there's a lot fewer leaders that I'm like, hey, son.
Yeah.
I want to grow up like that.
Right.
I look around. I see people. Not trusting. I see people that aren't embarrassed for doing something shitty.
Right.
I see people that sleep just fine. I found myself starting to go, oh, I sleep fine too. That's that part where I was like, uh-uh. You can't you don't you don't don't sleep fine if you half ass that situation or if you did that person wrong and can get away with it. Right. And so so trust what where do we look to for belief? Me, I believe in God, but it doesn't have to be that. It's your better self, your transcendent self, your kids, their future. There's all kinds of things to believe in.
Humanity itself. Yeah. Believing in it, our potential. We understand that humans can be so amazing at times, and all my favorite people are humans. Yeah. I love people. I love being around them. But yet, simultaneously, people can be fucking horrific. They're terrible at the same time. The problem today is that you're inundated by these people that are terrible. Your phone is filled with these news feeds of people doing terrible things. Yeah. I don't think we're supposed to have access to 8 billion people's bad stories. I don't think that's normal. And I think that also changes your own perception of the world and invites cynicism. What is the point of being a good person? What is the point of being friendly and nice when the world's gone mad?
Well, it's consequences, man. None of it. If I can shortcut it and light sheet and steel, I'll get the same thing. And I'm in a world that rewards that. Especially CEOs.
I mean, if you're working for some giant corporation, if you're trying to make your shareholders billions of dollars, like, yeah, you kind of have to be a psycho. And those are the people that a lot of people look up to. It's real. The way we're structured in this world with that inundation of information, most of it bad, with people being rewarded for being shitty people, it's hard. It's hard to still be positive and be happy.
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