The best thoughts are penned at ungodly hours of the night, pre-dawn musings that tend to tumble out of the brain faster than one’s pointer finger can document them in the iPhone’s ‘notes’ app. Or, at least that’s what I tell myself, as yet another night of sleep is interrupted by random ramblings jostling for position in my subconscious.

Persist. Pivot. Or Concede. These were a few terms tossed about in a recent video excerpt I watched with Matthew McConaughey, expanding upon how he utilizes ‘greenlights’ in his life, and the art of perfectly timing your assessment of whether a situation is, in fact, inevitable.