3.5/5

Decent book. Written by a tennis coach looking to improve how his students/clients learn, making them take out the thinking (or overthinking, rather) in their actions, creating fluidity in their actions, like Bruce Lee said: "empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water..be water, my friend".

The book was especially helpful for me to discover my own faulty thinking habits, as I don't play tennis (but I'd like to), it's not very helpful on that side of things but it's definitely given me a fresh perspective on how I approach tasks since I read it.

Tbh, you don't need to read the whole book to get the author's message. Empty the mind and let your body react in sport or other tasks, let it do what feels best and think solely about the action you need to take without trying to be perfect, take that action without fear or worry of its future outcome or the bias and prejudice of the past. That way, you will sooner or later get to "the right way" of performing an action, which he prefers to learning by instructions. He promotes that doing and experience are the best ways to learn anything.