#186 Phil Knight (Nike)

#186 Phil Knight(耐克)

Founders

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2021-06-17

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What I learned from rereading Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight.

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  • I was up before the others, before the birds, before the sun.

  • I drank a cup of coffee, wolfed down a piece of toast, put on my shorts and sweatshirt, and laced up my running shoes.

  • Then I slipped quietly out the back door.

  • I stretched my legs, my hamstrings, my lower back, and groaned as I took the first few steps down the cool road into the fog.

  • Why is it always so hard to get started?

  • There were no cars, no people, no signs of life.

  • I was all alone, the world to myself.

  • That foggy morning, that momentous morning in 1962.

  • I had recently blazed my own trail back home after seven long years away.

  • It was strange being home again, strange being lashed again by the daily rains.

  • Stranger still was living again with my parents and twin sisters, sleeping in my childhood bed.

  • Late at night, I'd lie on my back, staring at my college textbooks, my high school trophies and blue ribbons, thinking, this is me.

  • Still on paper.

  • I thought, I'm an adult.

  • I graduated from a good college, University of Oregon, earned a master's from a top business school, Stanford.

  • Survived a year long hitch in the US army.

  • My resume said I was a learned, accomplished soldier, a 24 year old man in full.

  • So why, I wondered, why do I still feel like a kid?

  • I would have found it difficult to say what or who exactly I was.

  • Or I might become.