Shoe Dog A memoir by the creator of NIKE. Phil Knight

Shoe Dog A memoir by the creator of NIKE. Phil Knight

I'm familiar with the story but never heard it from Phil Knight’s point of you. The book moves rapidly along with the interesting history of the growth of NIKE and the fine line between falling apart and succeeding. Time and again he illustrates the key role relationships play in a person’s success. People you can trust, people you would go to the mat for and they for you, with people who you enjoy or can be simpatico with their idiosyncratic behaviors and they with yours.

A few tidbits

In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki, Zen mind beginners mind

The Oregonian mindset - “the cowards never started, the weak died along the way - that leaves us”

Told his kids bedtime history stories and inserted his kids name into the history stories e.g. Ben Franklin and ‘insert child's name here’ make the kid part of key player in solutions.

The bucket list – he encourages pursuing one

Everyone is seeking a connection , a oneness, a mi casa es su casa.

Seek a calling even if you don't know that means seek it. If you are following your calling the fatigue will be easier to bear, disappointment will be fuel, highs will be like nothing you've ever felt.

Sometimes you need to know when to give up. giving up doesn't mean stopping don't ever stop!

Have faith in yourself but also have faith in faith.

A good story.

An interesting and gifted man.

Fascinating and fun to read as he weaves together business and personal life. Interesting that his desire to ‘relive’ it would be to unsay some of the things he had said, to say some of the things he’d omitted and ‘to be a better father’.