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A Gallery book. Gallery Books has a great book for every reader. From his meteoric rise as a fearsome world champion to his public fall from grace and later return to the ring in his fifties, Meditations distills the lessons from each chapter of Mike Tyson’s life into instructive wisdom. The animal spirit that drove him as a young, hungry kid from Brownsville, Brooklyn, who needed to dominate and conquer to survive was the foundation to his ruthless fighting in the ring. This borderline tyrannical appetite eventually led him astray. At the height of his fame, Tyson spiraled—losing control, serving prison time—and watched his fortune and identity slip away. In the years that followed, Tyson subdued the beast, but with it, lost the fire that once defined him, sinking into depression and apathy. He learned that domination and conquest don’t provide life with meaning, a discovery that also robbed Tyson of his sense of purpose. He retired from public life, stepped away from the ring, and let himself go from fear of waking up the sleeping giant within him. Now, Tyson has learned to strike a balance between these extremes. Not rejecting traits that built him—ambition, drive, hunger—but tempering them with self-awareness, emotional growth, and a commitment to family, and personal integrity. Honest and deeply reflective, Meditations offers a blueprint for confronting inner demons, embracing your contradictions, and living life in full.