Olivia asked Matthew McConaughey:

Hi Matthew, your book is very extraordinary and I continue to use it to inspire me. Not only does it contain deep meaningful moments but also many lifelong lessons of pain and love. In your book, you talk about greenlights almost in a surreal yet achieving way. During these moments were you ever anxious about greenlights suddenly turning red or do you find ways to prepare yourself for those moments?

Matthew McConaughey I always have a certain some sort of anticipation anxiety about cruising through greenlights and wondering if the next light is going to be red, and if so, why? I am learning, as I wrote about in The Art of Running Downhill, to appreciate and embrace and dissect the reasons I am catching greenlights when I am, and to not get an non-deserving complex when I am catching a succession of them. If I can avoid complacency when I am on my frequency, and not take the successes for granted, while still maintaining a grace, a hunger for continuing the process, and a courage to accept and feel I’ve earned the greenlights when I’m catching them, then I find I catch more for longer—always understanding that the red lights WILL come on their own without needing me to self-implode to create them on my own.

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