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Tiger Traits: 9 Success Secrets You Can Discover From Tiger Woods to Be a Business Champion

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Nate Booth's Tiger Traits has a wonderful way of exposing the tiger inside each of us. Even better, Nate takes on the role of a seasoned, professional caddy and shows each of us how to play the championship course of life. As anyone who plays the game of golf will tell you, there's more than one set of tees to play from. After reading and applying Nate's observations, I will feel much more confident playing the game of life from the championship tees.

When Nate writes about discovering one's natural talents, he gives us clear direction on what we should look for. When it comes to our individual weaknesses, he shows us how to manage them with honor.

While many may buy this book because of its reference to Tiger, I recommend this book because it gives all of us a better chance to tap into the natural and developed gifts of the author, Nate Booth.

In closing, I bought a copy of Tiger Traits for each of our five grown sons. It's a club I want in each of their bags.

Ralph Williams
Bottom Line University
Colleyville, TX

One of the staples in the business - motivation literature is the use of sports and sports heroes to illustrate a set of constructive traits the author shares with you. Here, Nate Booth has written a book that motivates the reader by illustrating the nine principles he provides in the book (and a tenth bonus principle online) through the life and career of the phenomenal golfer, Tiger Woods. The author is clear that Tiger has NOTHING to do with the book, does not endorse it, and is in no way affiliated with him. I guess this disclaimer is necessary in this age of total marketing, branding, and so forth. However, if you go to your bookstore and look at all the books based on the lives of various people without their endorsement, you could fill many shelves.

The main focus of the book, as I read it, is about taking control of your life by finding out what you are truly good at (the author provides you with some sound ways to tell), to develop a compelling dream around that talent, to get the right role models - teachers - supporters who will help you along the path, being confident, getting the right mental models, talk through actions, continually improve, be likeable (as an aside, while Tiger is famous and charismatic, I am not sure he is necessarily likeable nor am I sure he is concerned about it), and giving back.

Booth provides a post nine-hole (nine-principle) cool down where he summarizes of what he was trying to teach through the book and hopes the reader has learned. He also offers some recommended reading.

The book is NOT only about Tiger. Booth provides some excellent quotes from all kinds of past greats, from Aristotle, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Walt Disney, and even Jiminy Cricket (and many others). I enjoyed these brief quotations a great deal.

If you enjoy motivational reading and are interested in Tiger Woods, this is a book for you.

Now with the recent scandal people may see the title of Nate Booth's book from 2007 and dismiss it or criticize the book for the recent revelations of man's unique weaknesses and foibles. They would be missing out on a wonderful, practical book of inspiration and genuine motivation were they to overlook this gem from Nate Booth.

Every man (and woman) is imperfect and Nate even addresses that within the 9 points of this book around identifying, grappling with, and managing each of our weaknesses.

This is a book of 9 Success Secrets which are exemplified by Tiger Woods (ah, still ground breaking in race, in youth, in
multiple wins as a standout world class athlete) which professionals can apply to Business Success.

Tiger Trait #1: Identify and Develop Natural Talents
Tiger Trait #2: Create a Clear and Compelling Dream
(this is SO imperative for success in any endeavor!)
Tiger Trait #3: Select Teachers, Heroes, and Teammates Who Guide, Inspire, and Support
Tiger Trait #4: Be Confident
Tiger Trait #5: Manufacture Magnificent Mental Models
Tiger Trait #6: Let Actions Do the Talking
Tiger Trait #7: Constantly Improve in Good Times and Bad
(something which we all need to practice, indeed)
Tiger Trait #8: Be Likeable
Tiger Trait #9: Be Grateful, Give Back

I highly recommend this for anyone in business wanting to focus on improving their life and business success factors.

Dear Dr. Booth:

My name is Damien R. Euell, I'm 23 years young, and I wanted to just say "thank you" for your book, Tiger Traits. About a week ago I was cruising through the local Barnes & Noble book store and for some reason I was "drawn" to your book. Almost that 6th sense-- energy-- gut feeling that you get.

I've read a handful of self development books and this is by far my favorite read. Tiger Traits is a very simple, very applicable, and very true to its creed. Like most entrepreneurs, and young at that, I am continuously searching for that extra edge in mental development that will help me along the way. The stronger I am, the more I can offer to our family business. Warren Buffett says, "always finish the day a little smarter, if you're not, you're making a huge mistake."

Last year I moved down from Denver, Colorado to Katy, Texas to start working with the family business, Euell Energy Resources (www.euellenergy.com). We've been diligently working to rebuild the company; backlash from Enron almost caused bankruptcy. My father has instilled in me the values of never giving up, and to dream big dreams (Trumps version of thinking big). I'm excited about where we're going to end up.

Again, thank you for compiling all of the information, knowledge, and advice into one amazing book. Have a great week.


Best Regards,


Damien R. Euell

Tiger Traits provides such powerful success secrets that I will be buying 6 more copies to share with my two sons and four closest friends. Nate has written an easy to follow "recipe for success", which is inspiring for all ages!

Neil Wood
author: The Magic of Working Smarter

Written by success coach Nate Booth, Tiger Traits: 9 Success Secrets You Can Discover from Tiger Woods to be a Business Champion is a unique guide to business and life lessons that anyone can learn from golf prodigy Tiger Woods. From "Identify and Develop Natural Talents" to "Be Confident", "Let Actions Do the Talking", "Be Likeable", and "Be Grateful, Give Back", each of the nine positive character factors is scrutinized at length, its benefits analyzed and illuminated through real-world examples. An excellent motivational and self-improvement guide sure to especially resonate with professional golf buffs.

I read this book some 2 years ago and since then i bacame a fan of Tiger. This book has some idealistic review about Tiger and family. This book itself is good read, but its not about Tiger or his ideology. The the book is for some comman man like me to read and keep thinking i should be like this ideal man as per the book. Very recently i learned about the adultery/cheating his father has been in. This was not known to me earlier or its not there in the book. Its said in the book his father too was great and ideal man too, but its not true. So this book is not about Tiger, its just about some ideals a man should have. May be his name was used to make book sell faster or something like that. With recent cheating Tiger has done, author can better the title of the book to someother title.

Tiger Woods had to wait two years after winning his first big tournament, to win a second one. Did he ever get discouraged? You bet, but he never let consistent losses kill his spirit. Dr. Nate Booth urges us to apply the principles of winning to our business problems, for the solutions that worked for Tiger might also help us earn more money and success. The traits of likability (it is said that Tiger never forgets a face and always remembers the names of the children and wives of everyone he meets) will put you in good stead when it comes to your career and success will be a birdie in the hand.

Booth is an exciting and spirited writer. I would love to see him do a fullscale informercial that would help us put the story of Tiger in perspective. He's got a nice balance of inflation and restraint, and he knows his facts. Most people know Tiger is of mixed race, but Booth has the eugenics at his tingertips. For the record, "his father is half African American, a quarter American Indian and a quarter Chinese, and his mother is half Thai, a quarter Chinese and a quarter white." Booth allows us to see Tiger's rise to fame as steps on a Joseph Campbell like journey--the hero with a thousand faces, and here, a thousand races.

All the same, there's something a little crazy about this book, for although it says in big letters that Tiger Woods and the Tiger Woods Foundation have nothing whatsoever to so with TIGER TRAITS, it's selling largely on Woods' name, not on the name of Dr. Nate Booth I presume. Isn't there a law against this kind of abuse? It would be like if I wrote, say, a cookbook and called it "Tiger's Recipes," as long as I had a disclaimer saying, "These recipes were not tasted nor tried by Tiger Woods, but they were inspired by his joie de vivre." I would call that cheating, but apparently in the world of business books and motivational speakers, anything not nailed down is fair game.