Tiger Woods’ father, Earl Woods, credits est for his success as a father (13 years ago)
computeruser
Tiger Woods:
The 1996 Sports Illustrated
Sportsman of the Year
In the 1996 Sports Illustrated article in which Tiger Woods is named the
1996 Sportsman of the Year, Earl Woods talks about the impact of the est
training. He says that what he learned in est allowed him to devote himself
to his son and his son�s development into the world�s most renowned athlete.
�Not long after Tiger�s birth, when Earl has left the military to become a
purchaser for McDonnell Douglas, he finds himself in a long discussion with
a woman he knows. She senses the power pooling inside him, the friction.
�You have so much to give,� she tells him, �but you�re not giving it. You
haven�t even scratched the surface of your potential.� She suggests he try
est, Erhard Seminars Training, an intensive self-discovery and
self-actualizing technique, and it hits Earl hard, direct mortar fire to the
heart. What he learns is that his overmuscular sense of responsibility for
others has choked his potential.
�To the point,� says Earl, �that I wouldn�t even buy a handkerchief for
myself. It went all the way back to the day my father died, when I was 11,
and my mother put her arm around me after the funeral and said, �You�re the
man of the house now.� I became the father that young, looking out for
everyone else, and then she died two years later.
�What I learned through est was that by doing more for myself, I could do
much more for others. Yes, be responsible, but love life, and give people
the space to be in your life, and allow yourself room to give to others.
That caring and sharing is what�s most important, not being responsible for
everyone else. Which is where Tiger comes in. What I learned led me to give
so much time to Tiger, and to give him the space to be himself, and not to
smother him with dos and don�ts. I took out the authority aspect and turned
it into companionship. I made myself vulnerable as a parent. When you have
to earn respect from your child, rather than demanding it because it�s owed
to you as the father, miracles happen. I realized that, through him, the
giving could take a quantum leap. What I could do on a limited scale, he
could do on a global scale.�
At last, the river is undammed, and Earl�s whole life makes sense. At last,
he sees what he was searching for, a pattern. No more volunteering for
missions � he has his. Not simply to be a great golfer�s father. To be
destiny�s father. His son will change the world.� From, �The Chosen One�,
by Gary Smith, published in Sports Illustrated Magazine.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/1996/sportsman/1996.html
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Thanks CU.
Interesting article.
I did not know that.
Eldon
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addict whose driving skills leave something to be desired. Obviously
those early golf lessons were strategically successful.
Now maybe we'll hear some commentary from Joe Jackson, Michael's
loving dad.
Whatever.
computeruser
Rush Limbaugh made an interesting comment on Tiger earlier this week.
I am not going to seek out the exact quote. Paraphrasing; he said:
That this individual has spent his entire life being told that he was
perfect, a winner, exceptional, etc. Then a few years ago he gets
married and in that relationship that illusion is popped. His ego
pulled him to seek out the "reality" he had known and the golf
groupies are or were all to willing to give it to him.
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In a sense the Creating Your Own Reality may have played a part or
caused Tiger to develop phenomenal athletic skills, yet it seems that
other aspects of his ablility to deal and interact with others was
dwarfed. Eldon, maybe this is what you were thinking when you mention
[that waste of space] Joe Jackson below.
Eldon
Yup. Not to mention that his wife is Swedish, which means (a. blond
and Aryan in the lightest sense; and (b. by virtue of her culture,
extremely rational. Note that the Swedish golfer guy who introduced
her to Tiger when she was a nanny for him said he should probably
apologize to her.
tex
Ooooh, Swedish women are more rational than others, huh?
What would an Italian woman do, cut his balls off with a pruning
knife?
How many other cultural stereotypes can you through out there, Eldon?
Reading "Mein Kampf" again?
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tex
Wow.
Now you're a pop psychologist?
CU, have you ever met any highly successful alpha males?
You once met Werner Erhard, didn't you?
They tend to um er fuck around.
Nothing to do with "creating one's own reality."
Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Ayn Rand........ ;-)
And the article said Earl took est, not Tiger.
1 in five men "stray" during their marriage.
I'm sure the stat is higher among the big ego celebrities.
http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/infidelitystats.html
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computeruser
My opinion is: Tiger lived in the "reality" that Earl created for him
during his formative years.
I think Eldon understood that from what I wrote. Public schooling may
have affected my ability to compose a sentence.
Tiger is deserving of high self esteem and a big ego for is
accomplishments in golf.
He is also deserving of pursuing his tastes in women. If he knew this
about himself I wonder about his pre-nuptial agreement.
Marriage and monogamy are social constructs created to civilize the
animal urges.
Marriage is the Government or religious organization sanctioning of a
romantic relationship/partnership.
The marriage contract has legal ramifications.
Maybe Tiger should have read, Nena O'Neill and George O'Neill.
> 1 in five men "stray" during their marriage.
> I'm sure the stat is higher among the big ego celebrities.
Communication Course leader, contractors like Darren Mack?
Politicians too? JFK, Bill Clinton.
Eldon
You're somewhere in the cultural ballpark if you're talking about
Scandinavians vs. Mediterraneans.
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Cultural characteristics definitely exist. Call them stereotypes if
you wish. Call anything whatever you wish. Do you think anybody is
going to give a shit?
tex
Earl creates his own reality.
What he claims to have created was a powerful relationship between he
and his son.
Tiger took it from there.
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> I think Eldon understood that from what I wrote. Public schooling may have affected my ability to compose a sentence.
We'll give you a pass on that then. ;-)
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> Tiger is deserving of high self esteem and a big ego for is
> accomplishments in golf.
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> He is also deserving of pursuing his tastes in women. If he knew this
> about himself I wonder about his pre-nuptial agreement.
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> Marriage and monogamy are social constructs created to civilize the
> animal urges.
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> Marriage is the Government or religious organization sanctioning of a
> romantic relationship/partnership.
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> The marriage contract has legal ramifications.
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> Maybe Tiger should have read, Nena O'Neill and George O'Neill.
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> Communication Course leader, contractors like Darren Mack?.
Bingo
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I think we are on the same page here.
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tex
Your racist tendencies are shining through again, Eldon.
What next?
Those Japs can whip up a DVD player from a spool of wire and a
soldering iron???
Serena Nordstrup
Perhaps it takes two to relationship.