▼ Tiger: "You become disgusted."

▲ Tiger's Fury ▼

Tiger Woods, and his version of a grotesque Fury:

“You strip away the denial, the rationalization and you come to the truth,” he said, “and the truth is very painful at times, and to stare at yourself and look at the person you’ve become, you become disgusted.”

Disgust is often a pathway to personal growth and even a sense of spirituality. See my essay, Clean Up, Feel Better.

Jonathan Haidt explains:

I first found divinity in disgust.. Because I had always thought morality was about how people treat each other, I dismissed all this stuff about “purity” and “pollution” (as the anthropologists call it) as extraneous to real morality..

But disgust doesn’t guard just the mouth; its elicitors expanded during biological and cultural evolution so that now it guards the body more generally.. the most fascinating thing about disgust is that it is recruited to support so many of the norms, rituals, and beliefs that culture use to define themselves.. Disgust is like Jacob’s ladder: It is rooted in the earth, in our biological necessities, but it leads or guides people toward heaven - or, at least, toward something felt to be, somehow, “up.”