You read this for McConaughey, and you expect to learn a lot about him and his crazy antics. But what you’re left with is learning a little bit more about yourself. Touted as a “not an advice” book by him in almost every podcast and talk show on his interview circuit you kind of scoff knowing it’s a memoir by a celebrity. However, I gotta say he really crafted this funky retelling in a way that doesn’t feel like he’s forcing wisdom down your throat. McConaughey just tells you what happened to him and his perspective on universal human truths. If you take it to heart, well he didn’t mean it. He’s just telling it from his own heart, and knows all of ours beat to their own rhythm. Told in this outlaw, playboy monologue you get all of the good of McConaughey and all of the bad. And the best part is, as in life, there are lessons in both. He struggled transitioning from a Rom Com typecast to a dramatic actor when the industry outed him. He struggled becoming a man and living a purposeful life. He thrived in pursuing a passion instead of what was expected of him. And he thrived in loving a family that cleaned up all of the messy parts of his past. As human as human gets this memoir shows through the eyes of one of the world’s most iconic actors that in order to lead a good life you just gotta keep on livin. Alright, alright, alright.