This book is about an insatiable masochistic extremist that puts arbitrary physical exceptionalism above happiness, friends, and family. He seemingly abandons his child, achieves 3 failed marriages, isolates himself from his peers, and starves himself of all of the gratification that comes with success, to seemingly no end. I did not find this book helpful, I found the language unnecessarily vulgar with a few sexist comments peppered in. The man feels that he's achieved so much for some reason, but finds himself an entirely alone 45 year old man at the brink of death. Don't know how this is supposed to be inspirational. Would not recommend.