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Tiger Woods

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  1. “What's your go to shot when you aren't swinging well harm and asked? I think his first or second swing coach. Swing as fast as I can, unleash everything I have through the ball. Then I go find the ball and I hit it again.”

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  2. “Says, I want to be the Later on, Tiger Woods is going to be obsessed with the U.S. Navy SEALs. He winds up training with them, has this idea to quit golf and to become a Navy SEAL later on, likely causes a lot of problems with his golf game because it aggravates some of his injuries, like this intense training that he's going to. But he has this idea where it's like this, I think it comes from the Navy SEALs, about violence of action. And violence of action is the unrestricted use of speed, strength, and surprise and aggression to achieve total dominance against your enemy. I have no idea why, but when I got to this section, their description of Tiger's swing early in his career reminded me of violence of action. It was the speed and power of Tiger Swing that left the most lasting impression. The adjective that came to mind was violent. Tiger swung so violently that he had raw spots on his forearm from the friction created by the rubbing together on his relationship.”

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  3. “Give in to what he was doing. I was a quitter if I used that word and I don't quit. That word was enough. Tiger simply overwhelmed, and so this is the result. This is when he said he was like nearest peak. Tiger simply overwhelmed the competition on the Southern California Junior Circuit at an elite tournament that attracted the finest players in the region. Tiger absolutely dominated. He was, in their estimation, a decade ahead of the other kids. And then here's just one of another insane story that it's hard to believe that's in the book. Imagine being so good at golf that the school district changes the boundaries for you. Tiger entered Western High School. Western High's golf coach Don Crosby felt like his fledgling golf team had won the lottery when Tiger arrived, months before school started, the district was considering a modest boundary change that would have put Tiger's home just outside of the West.”

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  4. “Tiger's 12 years old when all this is happening. Earl put him through what he called Woods' finishing school. He would use psychological warfare and prisoner of war techniques that he had once taught to soldiers. Earl broke down his son in an attempt to toughen him up. I wanted to make sure that he would never run into anybody who was tougher mentally than he was, and we achieved that. Tiger says, my dad deliberately would use a lot of profanity when I was hitting golf balls all the time and throughout my swing. So this is what his father is telling his 12-year-old son. He probably did it when he was younger than 12, too. Fuck off Tiger, he would say sometimes. It was motherfucker this. You little piece of shit this. And then the line, I'm not going to say at all, calling him obviously racist term, things of that nature. He would push me to the breaking point and then he'd back off. He'd push me to the breaking point and then he would back off. I'm not repeating myself. Tiger's repeating himself here. It was wild. We had a code word that I could use whenever I thought I couldn't take it anymore. But I never use that code word. I was never going to...”

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  5. “Of them. There's no feeling I found that matches the feeling that I've beaten everybody, Tiger said. Second place is first loser. So I'm going to pause there real quick. I told you you and I have talked about this before. A lot of times you can read a biography and autobiography of somebody. You have an idea of who they are. Like I just read James Dyson's autobiography before time. I have an understanding of who he is. I have no clue. I've watched the Tiger documentary twice, read this entire book. This book's about 400 pages. I know how he approaches work. I know he's got almost like Terminator levels of focus. He's completely relentless, but even the authors who interviewed like 250 people and knew him spent years. I think they said they read every single book on Tiger as well. He's just an enigma where you read Jordan's biography and his autobiography. You have a sense of who he is. This is very different. Now, that's the thing that popped to mind. This is the note I left on my page, on this page, okay? Later on in this book, Tiger's mom said that Tiger's dad”

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  6. “He wasn't able to avoid, he hated that part. He hated what his dad did to his mom. And then yet, in many ways, he followed the path, like the story of the fathers embedded in the son. At the same time, though, his family, like, I don't want this environment. I don't care if my kid is the next Tiger Woods or next Michael Jordan or the next Taylor Swift because my daughter really loves to sing, I would never push them like this. He was raised in this almost psychotic environment. So you take this unbelievably disciplined kid, this unbelievably genius level IQ kid, and you put him with parents that are listen to this. This is Tiger's mom while driving him to tournaments, she shared her philosophy. He is like 10. While driving him to tournaments, she shared his philosophy with him. In sport, you have to go for the throat, she said, because if you're at all friendly, they'll come back and beat your ass. So you kill them. You take their heart. On the course he had only one rule, and that was to play without mercy. Sorry, he's 11 when she's telling him this. At age 11, Tiger entered 33 junior golf tournaments and won everyone.”

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  7. “There's a misconception about what drives you, and then this is what Tiger says. Here's the major misconception that people have gotten all wrong. It's what was posted on my wall about Jack's records. It was not the majors, okay? That one was on there, but it was the first time he broke 40. The first time he broke 80, the first golf tournament he ever won, first time he ever won the state amateur, first time he won the U.S. amateur, and the first time he won the U.S. Open. That was it. That was the list. It was all age-related to me. That was most important. This guy's the best out there and the best of all time. If I can beat each age that he did it, then I have a chance at being the best.”

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  8. “10 year old Tiger Woods started, stared intently at the television. It was the final round of the masters. He was watching 46-year-old Jack Nicholas. His reactions, this is what Tiger is reflecting back on this when he's older about him being 10 years old and doing this. His reactions over those last holes of the 1986 Masters made an impression on me because they were spontaneous, and they showed me how much of yourself you have to put into your shot. Jack was 46, and I was only 10, and I couldn't put it into words then, but I wanted to be where he was and doing what he was doing. After the 1986 Masters, Golf Digest published a list of Nicholas's career achievements, accomplishments. It included his age at the time of each significant achievement Tiger tacked the list to his bedroom wall. From that moment on each morning when he woke up and each night when he went to bed, Nicholas was there. This is not unique to golf, it's not unique to Tiger. It's no different than Jeff Bezos running around.”

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  9. “Of both Jordan and Tiger Woods fortune. Tiger. Now, this goes to the visualization part that I thought was very interesting. A few weeks ago, I did. I believe in me. I will own my own destiny. I smile at obstacles. I am first in my resolve. I fulfill my resolutions powerfully. My strength is great. I stick to it easily and naturally. My will moves mountains. I focus and give it my all. My decisions are strong. I do it with all my heart, and then the author says, Tiger listened to those tapes so often that he wore them out. So now we're going to see another parallel with Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryan as well. Michael Jordan would watch tapes of like Dr. J, all these other NBA players that came before him. Then Kobe in turn started and watched tapes of Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. Same thing, 10-year-old Tiger. You don't get to the top of your profession without studying the great people who came before you. This is very clear. Now we're 301 biographies in, and this is in nearly every single one of them.”

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  10. “Just like Mozart's dad. When he was 18 months old, his mother started bringing him to the driving range to hit balls. After Tiger, like the baby version of Tiger, the toddler version of Tiger would hit balls, she would put him back in a stroller and he would fall asleep. By the time Tiger was two years old, Earl made sure that he had spent two hours a day hitting golf balls. This was insane. Tiger was developing the habit of practice practice practice. This is, so I guess one of the reasons I wanted to read this biography. So I've never played golf. I don't even know the rules of golf. I've never watched golf, but I know who Tiger Woods is. I obviously can see he's clearly an extreme winner, clearly has a lot of the same parallels in the way he approaches his work to a lot of histories, great entrepreneurs. But what really made me want to read this book is because one of my favorite books I've ever read for the podcast and one that's changed my life was episode 212. And that's the biography I read a 600-page biography of Michael Jordan. And I was a huge basketball fan.”

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  11. “Watching his father hit golf balls. So, what they would do is they'd go out to the garage, they'd put him in a high chair, and Earl would just sit there and swing and hit into the net over and over again. Tiger got so transfixed by this, he would watch, his mother would try to be feeding him, and he would not eat. He'd wait till the swing, like the swing was done, then he'd turn and open his mouth so his mom could feed him. He'd take one bite, then look again, stare at the swing back and forth. That's how he ate. When Tiger was about 11 months old after watching his father practice, Tiger slid down from his high chair and picked up a club that Earl had cut down to size for him to make a new tour. He waddled over to the carpet patch, stood over a golf ball, and swung. All these things that I'm reading are happening over many, many pages. It's insane how consistent this is. Instead of carrying around a security blanket or a stuffed animal tiger dragged around a putter from one of the house to the other, it seldom left his hand. Earl deserved credit for recognizing so early on that his son possessed rare natural talents and abilities.”

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  12. “And on that point, after you read this book, you get to the end. That is an unknown, in my opinion. Let's go to five year old Tiger Woods. This is very unusual. Tiger felt different from all the other kids. Instead of toys, his prize possession was a custom-made set of golf clubs. Besides his parents, his closest friend was his golf instructor. He is five years old. By the time he was five, he'd already appeared on national television and performed in front of millions of people. This goes to his unusual, I mean, I'm going to read my note to you before I read the paragraph to you. Discipline and obsessed F5. I feel ridiculous for even writing this note. Each morning his mother would drop him off at school and each afternoon she picked him up. Then she would drive him to the nearby golf course where he practiced. Tiger had an unusually structured routine that left little to no time for interacting with other children outside of school. Academically, he was also way ahead of other kids in this class as well. He was also unusually disciplined for a five-year-old, and he seldom spoke.”

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  13. “Early is unbelievably disciplined, but also extremely gifted and born with natural intelligence. In this example of this, this is a quote from Tiger when he was older. By the time I was 11 years old, I had already won 113 tournaments. I peaked at 11 to be honest with you. I went 36-0 that year and never lost a tournament all in California. I also had straight A's, no A minuses. They were all perfect A's. So go back to the Mozart highlights. He was a mature artist in most forms at the age of 12. That's exactly what Tiger just told us. There was never a month and often scarcely a week when he did not produce a substantial score. Another description of Mozart. He was very rarely made any kind of mistake and when he did, he noticed it. We're going to talk about the obsessive and disciplined nature of Tiger Woods. The truth is he started earlier than anyone else and was still composing on his deathbed. Those 30 years were crammed with creation, that he started so early was largely due to his father the parallels.”

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