Tiger Woods' God Complex | Robert Greene | Big Think
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Like Napoleon, the great golfer let success go to his head. His tragic flaw was fearlessness. But Woods’ Waterloo need not be permanent, says Robert Greene.
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Robert Greene:
Author and public speaker Robert Greene attended U.C. California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he received a degree in classical studies. He has worked in New York as an editor and writer at several magazines, including Esquire, and in Hollywood as a story developer and writer. In 1995 he was involved in the planning and creation of the art school Fabrica, outside Venice, Italy.
He is the author of numerous volumes on power, strategy, war, and seduction, including the international bestseller "The 48 Laws of Power," "The Art of Seduction," "The 33 Strategies of War," and "The 50th Law," co-written with rapper 50 Cent. Greene currently lives in Los Angeles.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Question: Can fearlessness become a liability for powerful people?
Robert Greene: Yes, of course it can. I mean we talked about it earlier with Napoleon where it goes to your head and you lose a sense of proportion and you start thinking of yourself as a god, and a lot of rappers have that problem. The money comes. It comes too fast and then it goes just as fast because they don’t understand that a lot of it came by a bit of luck, by accident and now once you have success you got to be careful. You got to take a step back and be strategic. They don’t know that and they lose it. 50 is a very strategic person in life. He is also a human being who has weaknesses and limitations as well, so I think he will always land on his feet like a cat in this world because he was shot and nearly died and he knows a sense of proportion. I’ll always have millions of dollars that’s never going to go away what do I have to worry about? You know I already faced death. Every day to me seems like I’m on borrowed time. I’m just happy to be alive. I’m making money and I’m ambitious, but it doesn’t matter. You know you have that kind of attitude you’ll land on your feel. Sometimes he’s had problems. His records aren’t doing so well. I don’t know what his new record is doing. I haven’t been following it. He has dealt with mistakes he’s made, but I’ve seen him… I’ve seen him time and again, he’ll be upset for a day and then next week he is completely forgotten it and moved on. He’ll land on his feet.
Tiger Woods, you know, to play golf on that level. I’m kind of fascinated with it. It’s going to be sort of the subject of my next book. I’m not writing about golf, but I’m writing about the mindset of somebody who is powerful and is able to focus deeply on something. You know playing golf and running your personal life are two different skill sets, so they don’t necessarily translate one to the other. In fact, they can kind of clash, which is what we’ve seen. On the golf course his boldness, his aggression, his strategic genius, his attention to detail and how much he has mastered all the small parts of golf, it all comes to, just channels into this one beautiful flow turning into this supreme Da Vinci of golf Tiger Woods, but you can control a game like golf, which is a very uncontrollable game with all of this practice and this effort and this talent. You can’t control your personal life in the same way, and in fact, feeling like you’re aggressive and ambitious means he has to attack a new woman almost like he is attacking Augusta… you know the Masters, and he needs these new challenges, and so the two don’t necessarily mesh well, and that’s not a question of something except of a person’s character and how they’ve learned their experiences in life.
You take someone like a John F. Kennedy who you may or may not revere. I happen to think he was a very smart man and would have been if he had lived longer, a great president. He made… He was having dalliances left and right and center. We only know about it now, but if he had been living in the Internet age, forget about it. You know, Tiger Woods doesn’t have that room to learn and experience and grow in his character because it’s all out there in the public naked for us to see. It’s a terrible thing for someone like that, so you know he is probably chastised. He is probably learning that he shouldn’t have married this woman. He should have been single and sowed his wild oats, and now he is going to do this or whatever. He has to learn to bring those two worlds and make it something that has that flow like he has on the golf course, and he will. He is a great man.
Recorded on December 14, 2009
Interviewed by Austin Allen
I would love to hear his thoughts on Kanye West!
You just did
This guy has it all wrong. Tiger woods was raised in a completely outliers (in the Malcolm Gladwell sense) environment. Now he is rich and super famous. Women throw themselves at him constantly. And not just any women, the most beautiful women in the world. Not to mention all of the average ones. Women that he has never even met want to have sex with him. He literally has to use zero effort at all which is the exact opposite of golf. And being pre-selected by women makes him even more attractive to women. He doesn't have to be aggressive and "attack" women, he has to beat them off with a stick because of his social status. SouthPark did a great episode on this.
but being a beloved celebrity comes with an entirely different kind of adversity than that which the average person experiences, just as great if not greater. same effort required. he is probably tempted to approach life like a golf game somtimes and be a savage overahciever, which is what he did with those women, and lookhow it turned out. he got a little to many holes in one ;) and instead of applause he got backlash.
How come he was banging horrible skanks
they were fancy skanks!
He's a gifted, hardworking athlete with a lot of money. He could be as ugly as Willie McGee and still get laid. Doesn't mean he's any smarter or makes better choices than the rest of us.
Dillon Demas
I was with you til I read the words "just as great if not greater"...hahaha C'MON MAYNE!
great points all!
Who is the musician he is talking about at the start? I can’t hear a name.
He's talking about 50 Cent.
"I feel like a rap god"
rap god was 7 yrs ago?? god i am old
Nothing wrong with feeling like a rap.god .. he doesnt say, the rapgod
The next book that Robert Greene is talking about here at 1:39. The "mindset of someone who is powerful and who is able to focus deeply on something.". Is that about 'Mastery'?
Does it stop being gossip if you say it on a channel called "The Big Think"... Pathetic...
Smart guy
damn man...groom little
Wow, this went over so many ignorant people's feeble heads.
Great video, Beautiful Mind.
Do your homework folks. It's not Rocket Science. It's human nature and psychology.
NLP
Idk tho lol
Funny he uses an example of rappers......
what
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SO ... the point of this was?
but i am god though, like genuinely
What total and utter drivel by this pseudo-intellectual. Tiger Woods is a psychopath (seriously not being derogatory) it's very common among professional sports people. Alot of psychopaths are sex addicts because they're thrill seekers and constantly need these highs and sexual conquests to feel alive as they have no real emotions. It's why psychopaths are so successful in sport because they don't feel emotions or have to contend with nerves,anxiety and pressure like normal people do. They actually thrive in these pressure situations as they are ruthless and very rarely succumb to pressure or have any insecurities just absolute belief in themselves. Tiger Woods' career and game has fallen apart because he has lost all control in his life and of his carefully choreographed persona which has been exposed as a complete fallacy. Control and the need for it are central to a psychopaths pathology and once this is taken away from them they will always unravel and implode or in criminal psychopaths they explode. Sorry Tiger Woods' fans and I have nothing against him but he will never reach the absolute pinnacle or apex in golf that he once resided at!
The numbness to emotion is from dissociation, suppression, rejection, and denial of emotions. Adaptive trait to trauma, few people can keep it up, like a drug addict continuously getting their drug. If nothing stops it, they can happily keep doing the heroin/meth.