Matthew McConaughey on How to Fall Back in Love with Your Life

I found a journal entry I wrote the other day that I said, my life has been more getting comfortable with what I was un getting comfortable today with what I was uncomfortable with yesterday than changing what I was uncomfortable with yesterday. Let's double click that because that's great. It's about getting comfortable with what you were uncomfortable with rather than changing the thing that makes you uncomfortable. When you have that sort of resilience, you're a repeat offender. You keep stepping in the same pile of shit and you get up and dust yourself off instead of ever stopping to go, why do I keep stepping in that same pile?

What do you do when you're really good at something and your career is thriving as a result? Except you're really bored. or have completely fallen out of love with it. That was Matthew McConaughey's challenge. He was Mr.

Romcom for years, and as much as he wanted to change, both his agent and audiences couldn't imagine him doing anything else. And so the offers never came. Instead of doing what most of us would have done, continuing to make the money and enjoying the success, he had the courage to simply stop. He started to say no to all the wrong offers, and he was determined to wait for the right one, no matter how long it took. How did he find that courage?

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