Matthew McConaughey On: His Morning Routine; When To Take Risks; How To Bounce Back From Fuckups; And the Dangers of Cynicism

This is the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey gang, what are the One of the very cool parts of my job is that once in a while

I get to talk to people. whose work I really admire. I'm talking about public figures who I've been watching or listening to for decades. Today it's Matthew McConahay, who I've loved in movies like The Wolf of Wall Street, the Dallas Buyers Club. et cetera, and also the TV show True Detective and much more.

Side note, I sometimes laugh, and I was actually thinking about this during the interview, but I didn't bring it up. I sometimes laugh about the that great faux confrontational interview between Zach Galafanakis and Matthew McConaughey on Zach's web show between two ferns. Where Zach turns to Matthew and says something like Give or worry when you and Woody Harrelson are on set that somewhere there's a sack not being hackied. Anyway. It was kinda surreal to talk to Matthew, and he did not disappoint. He was full on Matthew. This interview centers on his new book, which is called Poems and Prayers. We talk about Matthew's morning ritual, what he means by prayer and how he does it. He gets pretty granular on that. His relationship with doubt and humility, how to reframe your relationship with failure, risk and embarrassment, why he's so worried about growing cynicism in the culture, the difference between hope and belief, why he says belief is punk rock and much more.

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