Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

A begrudging 5. There's a lot of inspiring stuff here about how suffering is a choice.

There's a lot of good memes here, things like how we have an internal limitor that says “yeah, ok, that's good enough. You've tried now.” The few times I've pushed through that feeling, I've unlocked a lot of new potential, and realized that I was way more capable than I thought before.

The begrudging is because ultimately, it's hard to be inspired by someone who needs to prove it to himself so badly that he turns his hands into raw hamburger and finishes running through renal failure, having shit himself in front of his wife and mom.

If you're interested in extreme success, this book is mandatory reading, if for nothing other than getting a sense of what it means to really try.