⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Shoe Dog by Knight
| Full Title | Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike |
|---|---|
| Authors | Phil Knight |
| Year Published | 2016 |
| Date Read | December 09, 2018 |
| Rating | 5/5 stars |
The best book I read in 2018 and the best memoir-style treatise I’ve come across yet. What really stands out to me in Shoe Dog is how genuine Phil Knight comes off. Never in the book do you feel like Knight is embellishing the truth or retelling the story in a fashion that is a bit too fortuitous for himself. One of the big reasons for this is that Nike’s story seems to be just a few guys trying their best to figure things out without really knowing what to do. But to me, that’s really what the experience of life is all about — individuals basically winging it and attempting to maximize use of their limited abilities and information to achieve what they want. What happens in many autobiographies is that the author loses this sense of humility and ends up telling their story retrospectively, knowing that they are destined to become someone worthy of publishing an autobiography in the first place. With Shoe Dog, Phil Knight avoids this pitfall and gives us a refreshingly vulnerable account of his (and Nike’s) life.