Make One Bet On Yourself And Never Negotiate | Matthew McConaughey

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0:41How do we learn to have that trust and the faith that there might be something great coming to us when we draw a line in the sand and we say we're not going back to this personality we had, these habits, these behaviors, this industry that we were in that served us so well for so long. But now I'm saying no to that old way of being and trusting that something greater is going to wash over me. How do we trust? Because it could have not happened for you. It could have not happened. We might not be sitting here right now. I might not have gone on to do the work that I've been doing since then. I might not have had the courage to go write the book.

1:14I might be that high school football coach that I was thinking about being. Really? Yeah. I might be that wildlife guide in Africa that I was thinking about being. I might be that conductor of a symphony that I was thinking about becoming. and not sitting here? How do we trust it? I think, look, when the decision came to me, I was in a position to hear the truth. My heart was looking, and my mind were looking, and I was giving myself room to cut out all the outside stimulus. Yes. And you know how when those truths come, they land like a lightning bolt and a butterfly at the same time. But you know they're true and they're true for you when they land.

2:00And you go, oh, that was a direct line. Whether you're religious or you call it the prime mover, the way maker, the universe, whatever you want to call it. That was a direct line and that's true to me. And then comes the hard part. Trust in that truth when the sun rises and you're back in the middle of the masses. They're all going, hey, try this. What are you doing? They weren't there for that truth last night. their truth that they think of you was the same when you had the day before but now your truth's different so trust in that and not letting your onion get peeled because that's what happens it starts to strip away you know it's it's it's it's why i think why people have you know church once a week because you're good on monday but come friday you don't need it you know what i mean you start to forget the things, you know.

2:52That's why we need to update and maintain ourselves with our mental health, spiritual health and physical health. Understanding it is one thing, but then keeping it in action and trusting in it and having the patience to trust in it. So it hit me in a clear way that I knew it was true. I had someone in my life, Camilla, that was close to me that I could share it and understood it and understood in the way that I shared it with her. She was like, okay, I hear you. You're not negotiating. You're not asking me a question. you're sharing with me the truth for you so i can be by your such and say this so i can be by your side and make sure you stick to it because i know how important this is to you what was that truth that you heard or that came to you at that time that i needed to do something different more i needed more to fulfill me at that point that while i was happy that i was getting off so much to the vitality in my real life more so than my work.

3:50I even looked in the mirror and said, well, if it's got to be one way or the other, congratulations. Because a lot of times I've had the times where you're getting off to your work more than your real life. Right. Right. But I was like, I believe my work can challenge the vitality. I hope that my life is more vital than my work for as long as possible. Please. I hope it is. But I think I can get my work to challenge the vitality. and make me sweat my boobs in the right way, in the same way that my life is, to give me the joy and the pain and all that the way my life is. And so I was like, well, we'll bet on it and make it non-negotiable.

4:27Make one bet and stick to it. Wow. And you know, sometimes it's endurance. So trust in that. I never questioned going back on my decision. No matter how much money. No, no. 20 million, 30 million, 100 million. You'd be like, this is not worth it. No. Now, because as the number, trust me, when that number went from 8 to 10, 12 to 14.5, I started getting a little. Ooh, maybe I got a little. I was like, here we go. Here we go. You want me to get it. It didn't go from 8 to 6 to 4 to 2. Right. It went up. It went up. I was like, okay, I'm getting leverage in this. And I realized when I turned down the 14.5, I said, I got a sneaky suspicion this may give me a little leverage because that's a big number.

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