Dan Millman

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Buddhism, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week on The One You Feed we have Dan Millman. Dan is a former world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor as well as a best selling author.After an intensive, twenty-year spiritual quest, Dan's teaching found its form as the Peaceful Warrior's Way, expressed fully in his books and lectures. His work continues to evolve over time, to meet the needs of a changing world.Dan's thirteen books, including Way of the Peaceful Warrior, have inspired and informed millions of readers in 29 languages worldwide. The feature film, "Peaceful Warrior," starring Nick Nolte, was adapted from Dan's first book, based upon incidents from his life.In This Interview Dan and I discuss...The One You Feed parable.The choice we face every day.What does window cleaning have to do with spirituality?How to get moving in the right direction.How life always comes down to whether or not you take the action.Starting small and connecting the dots.That a little of something is better than nothing.The danger of the all or nothing mentality.That knowledge alone is not enough.Life purpose.A definition of wisdom.Skillful versus unskillful action.The Four Purposes of Life.How life is a perfect school and the lessons get harder if we don't learn.The conventional realm and the transcendental realm.The process of writing a book with his daughter. Dan Millman LinksDan Millman homepageDan Millman author page on AmazonDan's latest book with his daughter Sierra: The Creative CompassSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We don't see the world as it is.
0:02.0	We see the world as we are.
0:11.8	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:13.9	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:18.4	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:24.0	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:28.4	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:33.1	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:36.0	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:39.5	But it's not just about thinking.
0:41.4	Our actions matter.
0:42.9	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:47.8	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:52.2	How they feed their good wolf.
0:59.3	Hi, it's Elvis Jaran on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran.
1:04.2	I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.
1:09.1	We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, success, failure, whatever else comes to mind.
1:15.3	But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have,
1:19.3	I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.
1:21.8	And listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
1:27.5	or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:31.1	Welcome to the show.
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