Matthew McConaughey has been slammed after his bizarre self-help seminar descended into a sales pitch for an expensive life coach course valued at $4,507.
The Oscar-winning actor hosted the webinar on Monday, during which he played the bongos and offered vague advice about self-improvement before presenting a program called 'Roadtrip: The Highway to More'.
McConaughey was joined in the 'Art of Livin' seminar by motivational speaker Tony Robbins and entrepreneur Dean Graziosi as they rolled out the eight-week package - which was reduced to $397 for those who tuned into the online event.
The course claims to help people 'live up to their full potential'. But scores of viewers have since condemned the seminar as a 'shameful' attempt to cash in.
According to the 'Art of Livin' website, over 2.4 million people joined McConaughey for the self-help seminar, which was billed as an 'intimate one-time event to create a future you can look forward to'.
McConaughey had promoted the seminar, and asked people to 'be cool to your future self and show up'.
Viewers who shell out for two-month course will be taken through nine 'mile markers on your highway to more' - which include monikers like 'more you', 'more cool' and 'more selfish'.
A wide-eyed McConaughey went on to make several odd statements in the webinar, including: 'The art of livin’ starts with admittin’ – if we want to be legit, we gotta first admit. Yeah, I just rhymed. Guilty. I do that. All the time...'
Viewers were also urged to 'name, claim and declare' their motivations for growth, where they journal their desires to manifest them into reality.
But many were left unimpressed as the actor spent several hours rattling through ambiguous advice, such as not being 'lazy with yourself' and 'asking ourselves the right questions'.
Speaking alongside an automated laugh track and applause generator, the recommendations he gave the audience included quitting 'the 9-5 job' to pursue a million-dollar business idea.
'I'm here because I am not making straight A's in everything that I'm preaching about and stuff that I've already learned I'm still not living up to,' continued the actor, as he spoke through terms including 'complacency' and 'illusions'.
In one of the stranger segments of the hours-long seminar, McConaughey picked up his bongo drum and tapped along while reading off commenters' reasons for joining the online class.
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