What that approach means is instead of changing our thoughts and our feelings and hoping our actions will change as a result, we change our actions. That training coupled with the fracture of his right leg in a motorcycle crash all helped him develop a very different, unique and disarmingly simple approach to personal growth: what he calls the “outside in” approach. He also shares his experiences in martial arts, which he started participating in as a young child in the 1950s and ’60s. That warrior’s spirit primarily does battle with our inner conflicts of self-doubt, fear and insecurity. His background in gymnastics and martial arts (before it was cool) along with some life-changing experiences granted him a grounded, simple, yet incredibly powerful outlook and approach to living a peaceful warrior’s life.ĭan shares what it means to live life as a peaceful warrior: we live with a peaceful heart and a warrior’s spirit. Whether you want to thank or chastise his publisher for that, Dan brings an immense amount of value on today’s episode. It was so new and so unlike anything else on the bookshelves that his publisher recommended the bookstores start a new category for it: New Age. Today he joins us to talk about what prompted his first book, whether you need to travel to grow as a person and what we can learn and apply to live the peaceful warrior’s way.įor those of you who don’t know him Dan Millman is the author of The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, a book published in 1980. But our guest for episode 407 was the first to author a book in the New Age category he was there long before the tricksters, hucksters and “gurus” made a mockery of the industry.ĭan Millman is the best-selling author of The Way of the Peaceful Warrior and 17 other books.
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Today the words New Age, spirituality, and personal growth have been overused and even bastardized by so-called gurus with personal agendas and self-interests.