#1 New York Times Bestseller. Discover the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Awardandndash,winning actor's unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. and The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years. andUSA Today and McCaughey's book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand. and Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckI've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers.