Dan Millman: ...not to take my thoughts (or myself!) so seriously

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We can’t think of a better time than now to soak in the wisdom and observations of our guest on this episode, international best-selling author and master coach, Dan Millman. Dan is a former world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor whose 20-year spiritual quest led him to write his first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives.

That book became the basis for the movie, Peaceful Warrior, starring Nick Nolte. Dan is the author of 17 books, the most recent of which is called, The Hidden School: Return of the Peaceful Warrior.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.2	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.7	And I'm Jan Black.
0:16.1	And we can't think of a better time than now to soak in the wisdom and observations of our guest on
0:21.4	this episode, International Best Selling Author and Master Coach Dan Milman. Dan is a former
0:27.0	world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor
0:32.1	whose 20-year spiritual quest led him to write his first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, a book that
0:38.5	changes lives. Now, that book became the basis for the movie Peaceful Warrior, starring Nick
0:43.5	Nolte. Dan is the author of 17 books, the most recent of which is called The Hidden School,
0:49.6	Return of the Peaceful Warrior. Dan, we thank you so much for joining us. Well, I'm happy to be here with you.
0:56.0	Your books have been read by millions of people and translated into 29 languages. You've been a
1:02.5	sought-after speaker for decades interacting with people all around the world. And I'm wondering,
1:07.8	what do you think is happening with the world right now in this time of pandemic?
1:13.4	Well, clearly, it's been a learning experience for all of us.
1:16.9	I don't think the lessons will emerge fully for months or even years when we see what we've all gone through together.
1:25.4	I think we're learning lessons about reality and how things actually work.
1:30.7	And we desperately, I think, need some grounding and some reality checks today with all the
1:37.3	adjusting to the social media. And we're all aware of it in terms of selective information
1:43.7	and people live in different worlds based on what they're exposed to.
1:47.4	And you mentioned the word wisdom, you know, and it seems to me, I've asked myself, what do we mean by wisdom?
1:53.7	Is it a special kind of knowledge or insight?
1:57.1	To me, the better part of wisdom is perspective.
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