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Founders: #301 Tiger Woods

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What I learned from reading Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian. ---- Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best and listen to episode 326 Alexis Rivas ---- [3:00] He was someone no one had ever seen or will ever see again. [5:20] You can always understand the son by the story of his father. The story of the father is embedded in the son. — Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life by Michael Schumacher. (Founders #242) [7:15] His output was enormous, much greater than that of nine tenths of other composers. He was a mature artist in most forms at the age of twelve. There was never a month, often scarcely a week, when he did not produce a substantial score. — Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson. (Founders #240) [7:50] Tiger's opponents were never people; it was always history. [14:05] I've always been a practice player. I believe in it. — Michael Jordan: The Lifeby Roland Lazenby. (Founders #212) [17:00] Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc. (Founders #293) [18:30] Tiger was filling his mind with words that were intended to make him great. He wrote some of the messages from the self-help cassettes on a sheet of paper that he taped to his bedroom

[00:00:00] Tiger Woods was the kind of transcendent star that comes around about as often as Haley's Comet. By almost any measure, he is the most talented golfer who has ever lived, and arguably the greatest individual athlete in modern history. For a 15-year span, from August 1994, when he won his first of three consecutive U.S. Amateur Championships as an 18-year-old high school senior, to the early morning hours of November 27, 2009, when he crashed his SUV into a tree and effectively ended the most dominant run in the history of golf. Woods was a human whirlwind of heart-stopping drama…

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