Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth Part 2

In the book "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth" Tyson reveals his rock-bottom upbringings that shaped him to become one of the best boxers of all time. Things that you wouldn't think a celebrity would ever have to go through; he lived through it all. For a multi-millionaire to have once been starving on the streets of Brownsville not knowing where he'll sleep that night, that's Mike Tyson. He speaks about how he is unable to find love or understand how to love. It seems contradictory that such a successful person had such a hard life early on, but without the early hardships, he would've never had the success he had.
Tyson wrote in his book a whole part about how when he had money, it was almost as if he had to buy love and friendship. Growing up, he didn't know how to love. He didn't know what it meant. His mother never showed him affection and he didn't even know his real father. When I personally think of a celebrity, naturally you think they have always had everything they wanted and were just incredibly talented at one particular thing. But that isn't the case. In fact, I've always believed it was the upbringing that made someone be successful. If you're always handed everything, there can't really be that feeling of really working hard at something and then getting rewarded. If you're handed everything, then there is no need to work for it. Not to say that sometimes you won't be successful if that's your case. But with people like Mike Tyson, Andre Agassi, Muhammed Ali, and a lot of other successful people, they had hard upbringings but that's why they became so successful in their fields. They wanted something so badly that they did everything in order to get it.
In conclusion, Mike Tyson seems like someone who was just successful and got rich and lived a happy life. But that's the complete opposite, he came out of nowhere, was rock-bottom poor, and fought his way (literally) to the top. It was with hard work, dedication, and motivation to completely turn his life around.

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth

In Mike Tyson's book "Undisputed Truth"Tyson speaks about his incredibly tough upbringing. I think there is one main lesson that comes out of this book and that is that even the toughest still have a heart. I think that is the overall main lesson of the book and even though I am not finished, you can tell that all he wanted was to be loved and he would do whatever it took to receive love.
Mike Tyson grew up in Brownsville, and with no real father and a drug addict mother. He committed 38 felonies before he was 13 and he was just involved with gangs and fighting and with all kinds of bad influences around him. In the prologue, he mentions that he was in such a search for love that when he was famous, he would give so much money to charities and people around him thinking that they could love him. Not the image of Mike Tyson you think about when you hear his name. When you hear his name it's one of the strongest, craziest boxers and people to ever live. But this man didn't know what love was and had never experienced it. It seems ironic that a man who punches another until they fall unconscious was in search of love, but that was the only way he could find love. By winning fights, by winning money, and then using money as a way for people to love him.
In conclusion, I think that this book on Tyson not only reveals his inner, more gentle-hearted self, but also shows how even the toughest and baddest of all people, still have a heart. And that heart may be the only thing they've been looking for, and will do anything to find it.