Review: The Way of the Tortoise

Blurb 

Drawing on more than a decade’s experience working with former tennis World Number One Sir Andy Murray, The Way of the Tortoise introduces you to the benefits of the slow lane and reveals why it’s the only true path to a high-performance mindset.

Taking inspiration from Aesop’s well-known fable of the Hare and the Tortoise, internationally renowned trainer Matt Little recognizes that there is no fast path to success. By focusing on immediate results, we can gloss over process in the race to get ahead, skipping over the lessons and experiences that we all need to build solid foundations for our future achievements. Matt shows that taking the slow lane can not only help you reach your goals more effectively, it can make your successes more sustainable by increasing your motivation, energy and resilience. Packed full of examples from the highly adaptable worlds of sport and business, as well as Matt’s own remarkable career, The Way of the Tortoise reveals, through practical exercises and techniques, the essential strategies we can all use to achieve extraordinary results.

My Review

Thanks to the publisher for my copy of this book and to Love Books Tours for organising the tour.

Little takes the old fable of ‘the tortoise and the hare’ and applies the lesson to his own life and the modern aspirational professional. He provides advice on the development and use of soft skills in the workplace. The advice is useful and approach interesting.

The text is easy to read and digest, with simple explanations for the exercises (‘drills’) Little suggests.

The book is a hardback with a very attractive dust cover. The paper is high quality and printing clear. The use of different types to distinguish between the main text and examples of ‘tortoises’ in the sports world help to make it clear and break up the text.

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Author Bio
Matt Little has been working as a strength and conditioning coach in elite-level tennis for over fifteen years and has been an integral part of Sir Andy Murray’s team for twelve years, including during 2016 when Murray won Olympic gold, Wimbledon and became World Number One. He is an internationally recognized leader in his industry and in demand as a public speaker on a vast range of subjects, including youth development, and strength and conditioning.