Shane Parrish
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The reverse is also true.
Genuine conviction is contagious.
You stop persuading and start attracting.
In my conversation with James Clear, he put it this way.
If you're having fun, then you're dangerous.
You're hard to compete with.
And Phil Knight was having fun.
He didn't pay himself for years.
He wasn't in it for the money.
Nike wasn't a job.
It was him.
I mean, just listen to how he closed his memoir.
It's never just business.
It never will be.
If it ever does become just business, that will mean that business is very bad.
Lesson two, fail fast, but fight like hell not to.
Two words become Knight's internal mantra, fail fast.
This is strange advice from someone who never actually fails.
He comes close, though.
In fact, you could say he lived on the edge for over a decade.