Life teaches us many lessons. For some, those lessons can come too late. Unable to change the past, we wish we had known when we were younger, what we know today. Those lessons can inspire us and haunt us in equal measure.
When we begin our life journey there are no guidebooks for our own unique circumstances. We must experience to learn.
Yet that does not mean we should approach life with no clear set of principles and tools to help us be better people.
If we live by principles, our character will always be stronger.
In this University of Houston Commencement Address, the actor Matthew McConaughey, decided to share his own life lessons. Those that he practices and lives by. By talking about each of these in the context in which he applies them, he helps everyone understand how they can be adapted for their own lives. How these 13 truths can be universal.