Michael Lewis interviews "Inner Game of Tennis" author

Michael Lewis is one of my favorite authors; his books include The Big Short, Liars Poker, and several other excellent titles.

Michael Lewis

His podcast, though Against the Rules, has emerged from the large pack of podcasts now in existence and now is one of the best I know of.

This season he's focusing on the "rise of coaches" and these are so far even better than his first (excellent) season on "referees."

The episode "The Coach in Your Head" is an interview with Timothy Gallwey, the author of this book:

I bought a copy of this book shortly after it came out and appreciated it for what it was (tennis instruction as I was playing in those days), but what I didn't know was that Gallwey was inundated with requests from corporate executives and others to "do what you did for the tennis players."

The coaching stories discussed in this episode of the podcast are fascinating, from corporate executives

To firefighters:

To his daughter, Dixie, trying to improve her hitting so college softball coaches would notice her:

Probably not Dixie but I couldn't find a picture of her

Anyway, fascinating stuff ... five stars!