In this Matthew McConaughey memoir, he comments on his life,

All the way to the green light

But from an onlooker's perspective, that's not really the case.

If it had been really smooth sailing, it would have been natural for him to become famous at a young age and receive early professional recognition from the industry.

Why would they still shoot so many chick flicks?

It's certainly a detour for a professional actor who is determined to make excellent work.

But Matthew recorded it all religiously, not erasing it or writing it off, because in his mind, they were a green light for his life.

Throughout the narrative of the book, the reader is not surprised to find that Matthew McConaughey is not a man lost in the limelight.

He cares extremely about the bonds between people. That is why he refers to others almost all the time throughout the book; he does not focus the reader's attention all on himself.

So we get to see a great deal of the people around Matthew, his lovers, his best friends, his partners, his parents who allowed him to have his freedom to the fullest.

Even at the height of his career, Matthew mentions not how excited he was, but who were the people he should be thanking at the time.

Such a selfless person is so endearing, both in film and television, and in real life.

And just underneath this extremely likable altruism, Matthew's ability to be such a successful actor is also due to his subtle observation of life around him and his keen insight into things.

His recollections of the borderline adventures of his youth in the book are truly a smile-inducing experience.

Sleeping under a tree almost every day in order to build a tree house, he ended up building a thirteen-story luxury tree house all by himself;

Trading in a sports car, for a truck;

Even after he became famous, he still had wrestling matches with his friends and walked another twenty-four kilometers home;

This experience of life deeply added to his worldview.

He had a sense of respect for everything. In the text, you can hardly see the more or less undisguised condescension of a man who has long been successful and famous.

And it's an experience that has helped him in his later career as an actor to understand roles, and even, at a glance, to recognize what kind of roles he's better suited for.

For example, when he was offered the role of Marty Hart in True Detective, he went out of his way to change it to Rustin Cohle, and that alone shows that he had an eye, like a god.

He is not a professional writer, and the book's narrative literacy does not soar.

Still, the sincerity and surprising simplicity of his book makes the time spent reading it, a pleasure.