She Dog II : leave a mark on the world

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”leave a mark on the world”

２０代初めころを振り返っての言葉です。
お金や奥さんや子供やそういう者とは違う何かが欲しかった。
意味あることがしたかったし、創造的でありたかった、ただもっと何かが、
なかんずく人と違っていたかった。
柴田の感想：まそうにそうだ。若いころみんなそう思うんじゃないかな。
この後、本を読んでいくと、フィル・ナイトは事業で大成功をおさめますが、その道のりは、ごく普通のこととの連続だったという話になっています。なるほどー。

By: Nezih Durmazlar – CC BY 2.0

Like all my friends I wanted to be successful. Unlike my friends I didn’t know what that meant. Money? Maybe. Wife? Kids? House? Sure, if I was lucky. These were the goals I was taught to aspire to, and part of me did aspire to them, instinctively. But deep down I was searching for something else, something more. I had an aching sense that our time is short, shorter than we ever know, short as a morning run, and I wanted mine to be meaningful. And purposeful. And creative. And important. Above all . . . . I wanted to leave a mark on the world.

Knight, Phil. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Kindle の位置No.43-47). Scribner. Kindle 版.

else. I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say: I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful.

Knight, Phil. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Kindle の位置No.1781-1782). Scribner. Kindle 版.