Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Impact Books.

Today we are reviewing a book that really hit me hard.

I'm not an emotional guy, but this book I have to admit made me kind of emotional.

It's beautifully written and it's a human tale of unimaginable success and pure raw vulnerability.

It's the autobiography of Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, and it's called Shudog.

Much love, descriptor on this one.

I was not expecting this book to be as good as it is or to hit me as hard as it did.

So thank you guys for helping to make this book actually happen.

Alright, Impact will take away number one.

Fear does not have to stop you.

Knight openly talked about being afraid of things and yet he just kept moving forward.

Everyone told, Knight that Nike was a crazy idea.

Actually back then it was called Blue Ribbon and they were just reselling Japanese shoes.

But nonetheless people thought he was crazy because this was back in a day when running was anything but popular.

In fact it was considered so weird that runners were routinely in danger of having things thrown at them while they were running

because people thought it was nuts that if you have a perfectly working car, why you would be out there running.

So not letting other people's vision of the present or even the future dictate what you do is such a powerful thing for anybody out there.

No matter what you're trying to do, I promise you somebody somewhere thinks what you're doing is crazy.

And you've got to be the one that has the vision to see things through.

In fact they say that vision is being able to hit a target that other people can't even see.

So if there's something in your life that you really believe in, you've got to have the guts to go for it.

And that was one of the most impressive things that I took out of this book because we all know the tale of Nike.

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