"Greenlights" offers a playbook for entrepreneurs in

Matthew McConaughey mines 35 years of his personal journal entries to offer a playbook for entrepreneurs in "Greenlights."

His opening line is, "This is not a traditional memoir." He tells stories from his life and shares insights, but his objective is to offer approaches. Written when he turned 50, it draws on 35 years of journals he kept, starting when he turned 15.

"This is a playbook, based on adventures in my life. [...] This is a story about greenlights. This is the first fifty years of my life, of my resume so far on the way to my eulogy." Matthew McConaughey in "Greenlights"