Matthew McConaughey's father taught him sleep was laziness, pushing constant hustle and independence. Finding his dad asleep before he died felt like a warning. The lesson stuck: if you don't go after it, someone else will.
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Hustle, hustle, hustle. Sleep was sin in my household. Sin. I saw my dad asleep one time in my life. I got up at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning and looked to peek, went through the kitchen to peek, and I saw him sleeping. I went and woke up my brothers like, "Dad, Dad's still asleep." He actually died 2 and a half months later. And connected that idea that, "Oh, if he slept in that late, he must have not been feeling well." If it was daylight, you couldn't be inside. There's a fierce sense of independence. Hour, 30 minutes of TV a night max. Mom would always say, "Why are you gonna watch someone do doing something when you can go out in the world and do it yourself. Turn that damn thing off, get outside. Had to be outside. Like, go get out in the world, go hustle, figure it out. What I always say is, if you aren't going to go out and do it, someone else is. So why not you?