There are many books that have been written by sports and business figures that sit somewhere between teaching tool and autobiography and Josh Waitzkin's The Art of Learning is one such book. I had wanted to read this book for some time mainly because of Waitzkin's name recognition and a couple of positive comments from friends. Most books of a hybrid type like this that I have read are written by coaches and are intended to show how that coach has made others into champions. This is the first book I can recall that is written by the learner rather than the teacher. While Waitzkin had teachers and mentions many of them, this book is far less about them and far more about how Waitzkin absorbed their ideas as well as those of others, added his own ideas, and melded everything into philosophies that were maybe not uniquely his but certainly uniquely tuned to him and his personality. He has been described as the "metalearner's metalearner" by Tim Ferriss and this book is a clear demonstration of why. Waitzkin gives insight after insight of how he learned and what he learned about how he learned. As with many similar books, the lessons are interleaved with stories that are in a consistent timeline that builds toward a culminating event that showcases the lessons learned along the way.