Some books you read immediately, and others sit on your self for a while. A few weeks, months, years even.
Shoe Dog is in the latter category for me. It’s often touted as a “must read” but it always fell into the I’ll-get-round-to-it-later category. But after watching ‘Air’ the other day, and seeing Ben Affleck’s portrayal of Nike’s eccentric founder, Phil Knight, I went straight to the shelf and started reading the book that night.
I wrote back in 2020 about what I called “right time resonance”, when some books aren’t right for us at a certain time, but are perfect for us at a later stage. That’s what’s happened with me and Shoe Dog.