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Learning from Tiger Woods

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I am sure most of the questions on the eve of the third round of the British Open revolve around Tiger Woods absence.  “What’s wrong with Tiger?” “Is he losing his mental edge?”  “Is he hurt?” “Has something gone wrong in his personal life?”  “Why so many mistakes?”
Here is my question: Why can we not celebrate the fact that Tiger Woods is human? He is human isn’t he?  I know he is as mortal as we all are. That is what we all have in common. Why do we insist on him winning every tournament he enters? He won the last tournament he entered.
I think someone who always wins dies a slow death.  You know, the Alexander the Great syndrome.  “He [Alexander] wept with sorrow,” Plutarch said, “Because there were no more worlds to conquer.” (more…)