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In the shadow of a saint a book writer about Ken Wiwa from his son's prospective. Ken Wiwa jr does an amazing job of detiailing the "feel" of Nigeria during the late 80's and early 90's. He decribes the warm air, the corruption from the country leaders, the hardship of not knowing who you could trust. Ken Wiwa states that "the only wrong doers are the ones that do now wrong"

Clayton M. Christensen emphasizes the struggles of innovation for companies throughout the years of his research. Christensen states that companies stress over new products that bring in revenue and are extremely profitable. Which in theory is ideal,however companies tend to miss the mark or indulge in a game of luck. Does Christensen state that companies should focus on what job does the product does?

Chapter three focuses on delaying our gratification to stay strong through the wait. Also this chapter explains how there is not such thing as "the one". You have to continue to work on yourself and let God be the ultimate matchmaker for you. Chapter four is based on the stages of celibacy and making the decision to follow through with waiting. Me and Bri are currently in stage three of celibacy were we are in a rela

Mckweon analyzes the importance of sleep and play. As children we prioritize being playful and having fun through our day. Unfortunately, when we become adults we devalue the significant of playing around and instead we see it as trivia. Mckweon challenges that perspective by emphazise how having fun helps us become more creatvie. Mckweaon also depooks the myth that sleep is for the weak. Instead, we need sleep to be

Mckweon analyzes the importance of sleep and play. As children we prioritize being playful and having fun through our day. Unfortunately, when we become adults we devalue the significant of playing around and instead we see it as trivia. Mckweon challenges that perspective by emphazise how having fun helps us become more creatvie. Mckweaon also depooks the myth that sleep is for the weak. Instead, we need sleep to be

What I took from today's read is to have time to think. We know it today life's there is so much going on and it's hard to take time to just sit and think. Also, I've find myself not mediating lately. McKeown gives the example of the LinkedIn CEO scedules two hours out the day to just sent a think, and he spaces it out in 30 min incroments. He also uses the example of Bill Gates who takes two weeks off in a year to r

The wait is a concept that Devon Franklin and Megan Good consider a path to finding real love. The book promotes waiting until marriage to have sexual intercourse with your partner. The benefits of waiting include being able to analyze a person's character, integrity, spirituality, and intelligence. In today's society, waiting till marriage is seen as an uncommon way of being in a relationship. However, The wait...

The wait is a concept that Devon Franklin and Megan Good consider a path to finding real love. The book promotes waiting till marriage to have sexual intercourse with your partner, the benefits of waiting include being able to analyze the character, integrity, true personality of your partner. In today's society, waiting till marriage is seen as an uncommon way of being in a relationship. However, The wait...

If you do not make your own choices someone or something will make your choices for you. Nonessential are not intentional with how they use their time, they tend to go with the flow by saying yes to everything. On the other hand, an essentialist believes that they can do anything but everything. Three steps to get to thinking as an essentliast is to explore, eliminate and execute.

Essentialism is being able to decide what tasks are essential to accomplish ones goals in the day. One of the biggest issues is society making one feel bad to say no. When in reality, saying no means that you value your time and that you are a firm decisions maker. There has been countless amount of time when I have said yes to something that I did not want to do and ended up wasting time.It feels better to say no

The last three of the seven principles include harmony, time and caution. Hill explains that people that move without cautions will eventually become drifters, people that move with caution think before they act. Time is important because it allows one to gain wisdom, through dependable knowledge that has been applied. Harmony is significant because it explains how one thoughts connect with its associations. definite

Through adversity there is an equal amount of opportunities for one to find the positive in the situation. Hill expresses that adversity is inevitable, once one faces temporary failure they have a option to give up or use it as fuel to continue going on ones path. Hill also emphasizes the significance of one's environment. One is most influenced by his close associations, this will dictate if one has positiv or neg t

One of the most dangerous things a human can do is become trap in a negative hypnotic rhythm, where one loses one's purpose. Hill speaks on seven principles that can help one avoid negative hypotonic rhythm or escape it. The three principles covered so far include definite of purpose, overcoming adversity and mastery of self. theses are very key concepts to help on take control of one's life!

School and Religion, hill speaks on the disadvantages of theses two institutio. Schools are not organized in a way that allows children to think on their own. So during school, students should learn to be definite in their decisions. In church, seeds are planted in the children to fear the devil. As we know fear is the most common habit that causes people to become drifters. The one way to be the devils is to have de

A drifter is a person that does not have a definite of purpse and refuses to think on ones own. This the number one way the Devil takes over peoples minds. The Devil states that he cannot control people who think for themselves, people who know what they want out of life and can form thier own opinions. Not being an independant thinkers is crucial to one eventually becomeing a drifter. So allows form your judgement.

"Every temporary failure comes with equal benefit" said Napoleoon. Napoleon enters his conversation with the Devil. He begins the interview by asking the devil who are you and where do you live. The devil explains that he is enegry and that he lives in the brains of drifters.The devil confesses that his biggest stargy to take over people minds is fear. Fear of povery, illness, crictism etc.Drifters is in the next Chp

"Ones biggest achievement usually occurs once one goes through he toughest hardship". Napoleon explains how temporary defeats does not define mean permanent failure. In this chapter, Hill explains an important tactic to get through tough times. Hill uses gratitude to appreciate all the wonder things that he has in life. Hill explains his way of praying only in hardship but instead his prays daliy ones things are good

At the end of chapter one Napoleon Hill reaches the faze in his life he describes as "the emergency", which Hill defines as the point in ones life when one is forced to pivot and think. Napoleon was going through a tough hardship with his finances and find his divine purpose. One day, Hill's "other self" spoke to him and guide him to stop moving based off fear and too now move off faith. Hill is now on a new journey

Napoleon Hill is an entreputer, who was motivate by Andrew Carnegie to pursue his passion. Cardendige challenge Napoleon to interview the world's greatest success and failures. The purpose of this was to give the world a manuscript of the causes of success and failure. Napoleon tried to avoid his mission becuase of doubt. Eventually, Napoleon's "other self" reminded him of his purpose, which was to help others.

Napoleon Hill is an entreputer, who was motivate by Andrew Carnegie to pursue his passion. Cardendige challenge Napoleon to interview the world's greatest success and failures. The purpose of this was to give the world a manuscript of the causes of success and failure. Napoleon tried to avoid his mission becuase of doubt. Eventually, Napoleon's "other self" reminded him of his purpose, which was to help others.

Knights deal made him the first american to make a deal with china in more than twenty five years. Knight does not have time to relax. Quickly, him and his team set up a seven day twelve city trip across the US in attempts to gain investors so Nike can officially go public. Knight got his ideal prices of the share of stock, which was twenty two per share the same as apple at the time Knight woke up to 178 million!

Knight overcomes his battle with the US Government. Even though knight doesn’t want to pay anything, Nike settles for a 9 mill lawsuit. Knights and his team have decided to go public, good for them they don’t have to change NIKEs identity. Knight realizes that China is the next big thing and he needs to start making his connections. Now him and the buttfaces are going to China!

1977. Knight has found his official negotiator Strasser. That was Strasser real talent he never was rattled in tough negotiations, he always seemed calm and was able to say what he felt. During this year Knight makes a strong impact on sports culture. Starting with the NBA Strasser secured a NBA. Then Nike approached college football , basketball and even HS game. Once knight had sports on lock his dad respected Nike

Nike makes another appearance in the people who would qualify for the Olympics this time they have three different runners in Nike. One runner made in two the actually Olympics were it was anticipated that he’d being wearing Nike. However, during the race he was wearing the rival of Nike, Tiger. This man Phill very frustrated and that’s when he realizes that Nike was more than a shoe to him, it was his everything

Knight comes out of the storm on top. Unfortunately, after he beat all his obstacles he star athlete Pre died in a car accident. Pre was 24 when he died and at that young age he already had almost every long distance record. He died on the same night he won the Olympics. 1976, Knight was realizing the China couldn’t be his sole provider for his Nike. This year he also dropped the name blue ribbon and went full Nike

1974, the year that knight has to face onitsuka in the courtroom. Onitsuka came to the court room prepared with five lawyers. In contrast, knight had his cousin Houser(who was good but cheap) and a young intelligent upcoming lawyer named Strasser. Even though knight seemed to be under matched he prevailed and won the case. The judge based the case off of honestly which Knight’s crew showed!

1973, knight has to explain to his investors that due to the betrayal of Onitsuka Boue Ribbion is at a loss of $57k to be exact. Even though, though Knight had a star athlete endorsing Nike, the investors were disappointed that knight and Bowerman weren’t able to keep their agreement. During this year, Knight has his second child which turns out to be another boy by the name of Travis.

1972 was a very eventful year for Knight. First, he enters the Chicago shoe display. The spectators where not familiar with Nike and the quality wasn’t up to par yet. Knight was still in business with the Japanese for distribution purposes only. However, Kitmai made surprise trip and found out about Knight creating Nike behind his back. This led kitmai and Knight to cancel their contact. Nike was now it’s own

Kitmai makes his tripped to the US too met his disturbutor Knight. Knight wants to continue to work will Kitmia, so his trying his best to impressed him. They start off at the bank, which ended up being a disaster. Kitmai cussed out the bank, which led to the bank terminating their relationship with Knight. Knight goes through Kitmai’s briefcase and finds out that he has 18 other distributors. Knight is hurt....