The Hindustan Times this morning put the count of his mistresses at 10. Tomorrow some more may emerge from the woodwork (well ,the pun is intended).These include waitresses, night club hostesses and even porn stars. Tiger Woods, one of the world’s most loved sports person and certainly the wealthiest has literally been caught with his pants down. And in todays connected world he has no place to hide. The internet is full of Tiger Jokes and television ads featuring him are disappearing.
Tiger Woods is no longer ‘the world’s ultimate symbol of high performance’ (or maybe he is in a very different sense!!!) as Accenture would like us to believe.
Why on earth somebody like Tiger Woods risk so much for so little. Is it a kind of mad streak that runs through some extraordinarily successful people (can’t help but remember Bill Clinton), who just can’t help but blow it (well can’t help the pun again!).
Here is my little theory for whatever it might be worth.
Most people like Tiger Woods who are enormously successful and enjoy public adulation in the extreme tend to start believing in their iconic imagery. They start looking upon themselves as infallible, capable of doing no wrong. In their own eyes, they become larger than life. Because of this inherent belief in their own goodness and God like presence, the ability to distinguish between right and wrong and good and evil is seriously diminished. In their exalted state, their moral compass fails to register anything and thus they do what they like.
More importantly they start taking fame and success for granted, not realizing how ephemeral these are. Tiger Woods probably believed that he is super smart that no one catch him philandering and that he can easily get away with it all. I am not sure if Tiger Woods even understood what he was gambling with. For him perhaps success and ‘high performance delivered’ is a daily routine, pretty much like going to work every morning for you and me.
Or maybe Tiger loved the animal thrill of it all. Leading a double life can be highly exciting for some folks and the higher the stakes, the greater the thrill. So for Tiger, the chase, the hunt all carefully hidden behind the cultivated image of a family man was maybe the ultimate game. The trophies in this game can not be displayed in his cupboard, but they are there to be had. And Tiger being the ultimate predator would go for them with a vengeance.
Well whatever be the real reasons for Tiger’s dalliances, the fact remains that in all this messy business he has lost many of his stripes. Will he ever be able to regain them, only time will tell.
Pic courtesy www.accenture.com
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