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The only biography I've read was of Arnold Schwarzenegger, he pretty much thought "I want to be successful at X" and worked hard to make it happen multiple times. I don't read many non-fiction but the ones that stick to mind are: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer which tells his personal experience during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, the deadliest day on Everest until 2014. I quite enjoyed this and tried to read a similar book about a disaster on K2 but I didn't finish it. Though the latter had some pretty horrific example of what lack of oxygen does to you, as the writer witnessed some guy slide down the mountainside without even trying to slow down right off a cliff and into his death, without a making a noise. Escape from Camp 14, written based on interviews with a North Korean man who is "the only known prisoner to have successfully escaped from a "total-control zone" grade internment camp in North Korea." It was very interesting and exiting to read about what life was like in the camp and how things pretty much every human takes for granted were new for him after he escaped. I think he said it was hard for him to feel "emotion" after escaping, since at the camp things like seeing your family members executed didn't do anything for him since that was an every day occurrence.
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