Gary V & Matthew McConaughey | Endless Analogies!

okay perspective patience on some real [ __ ] like right like like like ultimately you have to be happy obviously for the folks out there watching people don't really need an introduction to you as you can tell like i've already pumped up the energy i know we're gonna have energy here but we have matthew mcconaughey tell the folks out there watching like who you are and what you're about and what you want to talk about today well first of all gary i think we're cut from we're cut from the same piece of denim i'm here to talk about my book red lights turn green uh okay sorry sorry to interrupt you when you talk about red lights turning green uh what do we talk are we talking about like actual colors are we talking about perspective well you know it could be the actual colors what i talk about is all the moments in your life my life your life everyone's life that's listening you're gonna hit a wall and these walls are one wall after another it kind of feels like you're you're in the show wipe out eventually you're jumping on big red balls but by the end you're celebrating with your friends and family about how successful you are so the book is called red lights turn green because in my life every red light has eventually turned green or amber and then turned green okay matthew i'm gonna get bombarded for interrupting you but like on some real [ __ ] like what you said about walls it's like people look at walls and they'll get it from the wrong angle okay because a wall is an obstacle for people but it also holds up the [ __ ] house right like yeah listen i'm sitting down to dinner with you buddy okay we're having dinner i love that you said that i love that you took a minute and you said the word dinner because like what are we having for dinner well that's the thing when you sit down to dinner i mean you and i are not eating the same meal as someone next door you and i are probably having a sultry lava cake for dessert we're probably having semi-lotis for appetizers and in the middle we're probably doing some some udon noodles made fresh okay i love that you said lava cake so much i love that you said lava cake because for so many people out there when they get a lava cake like it's burning hot and they don't have the patience to wait till it cools off i've always said that where everyone is a lava cake we are we are melty on the inside as soon as you cut deep into somebody you find that they're just chocolate melty beautifulness on the inside the title of the first chapter is called lava cake humans and that's sort of what i believe you and i are i'm obsessed like obsessed obsessed obsessed with lava cake and the sweetness that it brings to people because ultimately you have to be happy people run into a lot of insecurity i can't tell you how many young people are like so insecure about their decisions and i'm like in your 20s try every different flavor like and it's not just lava cake okay sponge cake okay ice cream cake people bite into it when it's cold to get [ __ ] brain freeze but you know what if you're patient like but people are so obsessed with the end goal they're so obsessed with what they're gonna eat at dinner they're not focused on what how they're gonna get to the restaurant and they're not focused on when they get to the restaurant who they're eating with one thing i've always said is the end goal is a fallacy it's a logical fallacy it's a falsehood yes it is a fib one hundred thousand million percent yes if you're climbing the mountain the mountain's going to have an avalanche by the time you get to the top nobody climbs mount everest to get to the top right they're just trying to climb it until until they're sitting down for lava cake afterwards there was a story that came out and it was inspiring there are people who've climbed mount everest they never made it down they're [ __ ] frozen right all right none of us make it down buddy that's that that's chapter exactly it's called none of us make it down but eventually with global warming like and i don't want to get political but like the world will warm up and the people frozen on mount everest they will defrost okay they just need patience it's all about patience you if you feel like you are frozen on the mountain you have no idea when the next caravan of people is coming to take you down for you you're you're froze and you feel like i'm paralyzed yes chapter 5 is saying wait for the llama caravan to come get you because they're coming right richard link later he told me a funny story he said uh he said truth is a lot like a pair of sneakers you run around with them and you don't realize how great they are until you try to resell them to someone else and they try on the shoes and they don't fit the same and i said that makes a whole lot of sense and that's sort of what i live my life by does that make sense 100 million percent perfect sense i am so pumped that you said all of that especially when it pertains to sneakers that's why i'm obsessed with flipping for sneakers and baseball cards like people don't realize like there is value to be gained and value to be given when you have perspective and when you have pieces like i think that ultimately gives you more green lights less red lights but ultimately red and green together make yellow yellow is the color of p p is what you would spell waste with ultimately like that's what you need to do that's chapter 8 chapter 8 is called what to do with your waist most people are so focused on waiting for the lemons to come lemons are going to turn into lemonade i say don't turn lemons into lemonade i say grow the lemons make a lemon tree start an orchard sell that go into real estate full exactly on some real [ __ ] i've said similar things about lemonade like you're making lemonade but like that's even deeper because a tree will give you endless lemonade and you can climb a tree that's the other thing if you're climbing the tree next thing you know you fall break your ankle you're not making lemonade you're making a trip to the hospital so we say don't don't climb trees plant trees that's chapter nine plant trees uh what are your trees in life what are you reselling the resale value of a lincoln mkz only goes up i love that you mentioned like about falling off a tree as well like back up to that for a second because every day in order to gain perspective for me i imagine that i slip off a huge tree and break both my [ __ ] ankles okay and my neck okay i imagine i can't walk okay i imagine my entire family gets murdered and like i do that as a way to prime my brain to have gratitude and perspective so take me back for a minute or ahead to three or four chapters like what about this project for you has given you a sense of gratitude and perspective well this i mean this is my gospel i mean i've been writing this since the day i was born uh i just didn't put it down into physical physical fabric paper until the last eight months but what made me want to write this book is the fact that i see so many young people as you said they don't have their visions they don't have their aspirations goals dreams they feel like they are just bones muscle cartilage joints and i say what's between all those things it's sad like it makes me [ __ ] sad i talk to kids and they say i don't know what i want to do i say you're nine years old you don't know what you want to do i've known what i wanted to do since i was nine months old right before that i was pretty sure i would knew what i wanted to do as well i say if you don't know what you want to do you haven't read the book right that's chapter 4 8 and 11 is finding out what you want to do and so for the folks that are wondering like what maddy's done like read the book okay and like if you're [ __ ] confused that's okay because nobody knows anything but everybody knows everything you know what i mean listen if this sentence doesn't make sense to you then you shouldn't read my book i'm so pumped right now and we are on the same exact like frequency here so we'll close with this if anyone has any questions in the chat feel free to ask maddie but like as you know like it's not about the answers and it's not about the questions it's just about the uh it's here that's exactly right so i tell people if you find this sentence confusing then you won't understand the book it's gonna be clear as day if a man walks outside and drinks water from a river he's gonna be five foot ten by next wednesday that should make perfect sense to you amazing amazing i'll send a copy to sam darnold we'll see if he can uh start throwing them better sounds good [ __ ] i love it okay maddie all right good to see you