We make assumptions that it would be difficult or even impossible. We also let others define what we can or cannot do. Often we let our past dictate our present, our limiting beliefs that we can only do this much. And everything around us is ALWAYS happening.Ģ) Defeat isn't defeat unless you believe it to be so. Or it could be watching a tender moment between lovers, watching them as they embrace. And how much joy and contentment we derive watching that child. It could have been as simple as watching a child playing on a field, how engaged he or she is, to the point of being oblivious to his or her's surroundings. I would like to share some of the most life-altering insights from the movie that has since shaped mine.Īs mundane and ordinary our lives might turn out to be (in our minds at least), if we actually stopped and be in the present, we will realize how extraordinary that moment had been. The story essentially chronicles Dan’s story how he evolves into a Peaceful Warrior, with the powerful lessons that he’s learning from Socrates. Dan is terribly unhappy and Socrates begins to mentor him, helping him search for 'happiness'. Something incomplete.Īnd he realizes that the incompleteness when he wakes one night, and decides to walk to a nearby gas station where he meet an old man 'Socrates'. Good looks, popular, wealthy, great grades, good physical shape, women chasing after him and on the Olympic selection team… yet, there seems to be something missing.

It starts out with Dan’s journey through university as a world-champion gymnast, who seems to have it all. It's based on book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, a true story by Dan Millman. Many years ago, in a Leadership Program, I chanced upon this movie called Peaceful Warrior.

Way of the peaceful warrior book