The point I'm trying to make is that to Tiger, golf is an integral and vital part of his world, he has put every bit of his concentration and self-discipline into it. To me it is a rather trivial pastime of no importance. These are value judgements, not statements of fact. That doesn't mean Tiger doesn't take his job very seriously.

However, I can understand Tiger's golf because I feel the same way about sailing that he does about his sport (although I certainly don't claim a level of expertise comparable to his).

Now golf and sailing have very little in common, but they do resemble each other enormously on the level I am discussing here, that is, how it affects us personally. My relationship to it is comparable to his relationship to golf.

However, a thorough understanding of the rules of golf, or an exhausting study of the art and science of navigation, would reveal nothing about this relationship, the human connection that each activity has to its practitioner.

We're not talking about sailing or golf, we're talking about how each relates to the enthusiast. A comparison of the two activities tells you nothing about either of them, which is better, or more worthwhile, or even more important in the great scheme of things.

The relationship of a consciousness to an event or object determines its importance and significance. The universe is subjective. That is not the same thing as saying there is no objective truth at all. What it means is we're never sure we're looking at it when we see it, and sometimes we don't really need it.

Again, I'm speaking metaphorically, don't get bogged down in the technical details. Let me try another metaphor from a different direction.

As I mentioned just a few days ago, it is possible to navigate ships, construct a calendar, or predict eclipses without knowing the sun is the center of the solar system. It is possible to deal with reality effectively without having an accurate model of it, sometimes, an approximation is perfectly sufficient, at least, for the level of precision required.

This is how our brain is constructed. We are designed by evolution to work pretty effectively (most of the time) even with an imperfect perception of our surroundings. And very often several individuals are equally successful using totally different interpretations of those perceptions.

Sometimes, this rule of thumb fails, and you miss the vital facts you need to survive. But remember, human intelligence is defined as the ability to make the right decision (at least most of the time) when provided with insufficient data.

If you think you need perfect knowledge to do anything you wind up paralyzed into inaction. And if you feel you already have perfect knowledge because you are intrinsically and congenitally equipped to recognize it you will fail spectacularly.