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\nBook Summary:
\nFrom the Academy Awa rd®\;&ndash\;winning actor\, an unconventional memoir filled with rauco us stories\, outlaw wisdom\, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction
\nI&rsquo\;ve been in this life for fifty years\, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two\, and been keepi ng diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about s uccesses and failures\, joys and sorrows\, things that made me marvel\, an d things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less str ess. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How t o be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
\nR ecently\, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced\, lessons I learned and forgot\, poems\, prayers\, p rescriptions\, beliefs about what matters\, some great photographs\, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme\, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction\, at the time\, and still: If you k now how\, and when\, to deal with life&rsquo\;s challenges - how to get re lative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call &ldqu o\;catching greenlights.&rdquo\;
\nSo I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album\, a record\, a story of my life so f ar. This is fifty years of my sights and seens\, felts and figured-outs\, cools and shamefuls. Graces\, truths\, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs\, getting caughts\, and getting wets while trying to dance betw een the raindrops.
\nHopefully\, it&rsquo\;s medicine that tastes go od\, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary\, a spaceship to Mars wi thout needing your pilot&rsquo\;s license\, going to church without having to be born again\, and laughing through the tears.
\nIt&rsquo\;s a love letter. To life.
\nIt&rsquo\;s also a guide to catching more gr eenlights - and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn gre en too.
\nGood luck.
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