This month, the STRIVENT Book Club is reading Shoe Dog: A memoir by the creator of NIKE, Phil Knight. If you haven’t read this book and aren’t reading along already, I cannot recommend it enough. It’s fantastic and shaping up to be one of my favorite books of the year. The autobiography of Phil Knight is fascinating as it tells the tale of a simple Oregonian who realizes his cathexis about a market opportunity for Japanese shoes to be sold in America. This seemingly small c

“He who has a WHY to live for can bear almost any HOW.” - Nietzsche The STRIVENT Book Club is reading “Man’s Search for Meaning” right now and we had another great discussion last night that stirred up some deep existential questions. What is your WHY in life? Do you have a personal destiny? What is the meaning of your life and does it change? One of our members brought up a great point about taking care of yourself first so that you can be in a position to take care of othe

Once a week, members from the STRIVENT community get together to discuss the Book of the Month. This month, we're reading Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. This book is densely packed with vivid imagery of the concentration camps Victor was forced into during WWII along with an extremely compelling theory of how to find meaning in life, even in the most heinous of circumstances. Tonight, we discussed how one finds light in the darkness. More accurately, we discuss