It’s not clear whether this book is meant to be a biography, a self-help volume, or a physiotherapy manual. Aki Hintsa, the famous Formula One doctor, is listed as the first author, so you would expect it to be in first person, but it’s written entirely in the third person, most likely by second author Saari, since the back cover lists one of his professional roles as “non-fiction author”. It gives advice on how to get peak performance out of athletes, particularly F1 car drivers, then attempts to apply the same principles to business executives. I thought the main point was the biography, since Hintsa lived an interesting life, and his “Core” principles on health – exercise regularly, eat healthy, get enough sleep, find meaning in what you do – are nothing new or innovative, although the drivers he worked with seemed to be unfamiliar with them. I’m not sure why the last 16 pages are devoted to a series of basic muscle movements, because they’re only vaguely referenced in the main text and would all be available in any good book on physical education. The English translation is competent, but it reads like a translation, with some rather odd phrasing and spelling and grammatical errors, which means it hasn’t been properly proofread. Nevertheless, Hintsa’s story was engaging enough to keep me reading to the end, where he admitted himself in a kind of bitter irony that he didn’t fully apply the guidelines he taught his patients to his own life, which may have contributed to his early death at age 58, only one year after the book was published. The book was recommended by my own doctor, and I can say that it has reinforced what I already knew, and reaffirmed my own commitment to living as healthy as I can. I might even use a few of the exercises described in the back to stretch on breaks during my work day.